Snake embryos often coil in one direction. Now, we may know why

9/11 Turbocharged America's Worst Foreign Policy Impulses—but Didn't Change Its Direction

New York Courts Could Be Moving in a Radical Direction

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

The Singapore strategies

A Society of Cheats

We know sleep, exercise and diet are vital for health. But why?

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”

Watch This Shrimp-Like Fish Walk Backwards

The Gibbon’s Gaze: A Mirror Into the Human Mind

Dolly Parton’s American Life

Thursday Poem

No one was more baffled by his celebrity than Albert Einstein himself: "Why is it that nobody understands me and everybody likes me?"

The Sanctions Illusion