The Fortress We Gave Away

The Gun Debate Hasn't Changed in 500 Years

The New Science of the Near-Death Experience

A Flashback On The Two-Year Clause

Open Thread

The invention of the soul

Today in Supreme Court History: April 17, 1978

The U.S. Military Has Finally Left Syria

Conspiracy in the White House

Trump Tweets About Standing!

Open Thread

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

“The American novel offers the dream of escape: away from civilization and into the forest, away from marriage and onto the sea, away from history and back to boyhood”

Jeelani Bano, the matriarch of modern Urdu letters, passes away at age 90

DEI Activism Could Be Pushing Donors Away

Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong – They Can’t Take That Away From Me

The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Mathematical Concept of Nought and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form

Why Trump Thinks He Can Walk Away From the Strait of Hormuz

An English professor burns the midnight oil talking to Microsoft Copilot about Shakespeare, Dickinson, Hawthorne, and a play he’s been working on—and comes away deeply impressed by its literary insights

Brickbat: Paid To Go Away

The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew

What I Lost When I Gave Up My Catholicism