Where Have All the Good Lawyers Gone?

The Three Elements of the Good Life

Radical proposal would block solar storms with orbital ‘airbag’

Music, the Neural Harmonics of Emotion, and How Love Recomposes the Brain

Sunday Poem

Open Thread

Motherland on High

Spiraling Out of Control

The Trump Administration Wants to Frighten Would-Be Whistleblowers

Trump’s Border Win

L.A. Can’t Fix Its Mansion Tax Mistake

The Pope Should Have Gone Further on AI

Trump Loves Accusing Critics of Treason. U.S. Law Makes That Charge Hard To Prove—for Good Reason.

Scene at MIT: A nanoscientist graduates with her very good boy

"The age when you can run a literary magazine on trust is over. You can either decide AI submissions are fine, or you can filter for them"

Watch Immune System Cells Gobble Up Cancer Cells

Flickering Enlightenment

Alasdair MacIntyre believed that Western morality, having lost its rationale, was replaced by something thinner: mere moral passion  

William Kennedy’s Hard Luck and High Style

The Left’s Institutional Capture

Open Thread