Times Higher Education ranks MIT No. 1 in arts and humanities, business and economics, and social sciences for 2026

Greg Brown (1969 – 2026) Guitarist for Cake

Ebo Taylor (1936 – 2026) Afrobeat Musician

Bud Cort (1948 – 2026) Actor

Hannah Arendt on Love and How to Live with the Fundamental Fear of Loss

Poem by Jim Culleny

The Disappointment of Young Trump Voters

Wayne Thiebaud’s Sweet Take on American Art

Words Without Consequence

Love Anyway

National Park Service removes references to Harriet Tubman from Underground Railroad webpage

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Higher Education and the New Civil Rights State

The Heavy Pot Taxes Favored by The New York Times Would Undermine Legalization

SpaceX Could Go Public in 2026. What Does That Mean for Space Exploration?

Archives: February-March 2026

T. Alan Hatton receives Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education

The Mellon Foundation has put huge sums of money toward the idea that arts and letters is not for wisdom, but for advocacy

David Rieff, Doritos, and the intellectual deformations of social media. “I don’t exactly think better of myself for all the time I spend on Twitter”

Hope for American Education

Hoover Daily Report | January 23, 2026

In the 18th century, Bernard Mandeville discovered an inconvenient fact: Human vices drive much of social welfare