MIT Quantum Initiative launches postdoctoral fellowship program

Open Thread

New York Times Recycles Same Old Story About Northern District of Texas

The Political Violence Double Standard

An Actual SCOTUS Nightmare

Against the Lewis Model

Federal Court Rules Speech-Based Deportations Violate the First Amendment

Life, Loss, and the Wisdom of Rivers

In 1970, 1 in 13 four-year degrees was in English. Today it's 1 in 60. What happened? “Canon" became a dirty word

The Singapore strategies

The Staggering Financial Cost of 9/11

NSF shrinks support for social sciences in prestigious graduate fellowship program

Is Monetarism Making a Comeback?

Choice Words

In a global first, Mexico approves use of RNA-based fungicide

How MIT Sandbox has turned student ideas into $8.7 billion in global impact

“As intellectually undistinguished as it is possible to be”: F.R. Leavis’s torching of C.P. Snow brought passion back into cultural life

Siegfried Kracauer believed films could foretell political disaster. What does his approach make of today’s cinema?

How a spelling quirk and a typesetter's blunder conspired to give us the word "weird"

Yes, its titans were bad writers, narcissists, failed artists, murderers, and Nazis — and yet, it’s okay to love literary theory

Even as a young man, Franz Rosenzweig was suspicious: "You believe you are philosophizing, but you are only writing your own biography”