The Thing Itself: C.S. Lewis on What We Long for in Our Existential Longing

Are we the conflicted heirs of the world according to Francis Bacon?

This Week’s Photograph

Israel is losing US support – even among Republicans

MIT study reveals a new role for cell membranes

The Kiln and the Quantum of Relationships

Trump Says He's Willing To 'Risk' Your Rights for His Surveillance Powers

Hoover Daily Report | April 14, 2026

Today in Supreme Court History: April 16, 1962

A Blasphemous President

Waves hit different on other planets

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

The ACLU, Long Leery of the Second Amendment, Joins the NRA in Urging SCOTUS To Uphold Pot Users' Gun Rights

The perilous allure of machine-generated writing has a surprisingly long history

Long fact, literary nonfiction, narrative nonfiction: The genre is hard to define, essential, and imperiled. Paul Elie explains

A Long March Through Hollywood

The levels of elite cultural esteem once lauded on Bellow and Updike are gone forever. Prestige fiction is dead — and that isn’t entirely a bad thing

Margaret Atwood on Margaret Atwood. "This is a very long book that is very ample on seemingly insignificant matters and oddly reticent on a few big ones"

Why ‘quantum proteins’ could be the next big thing in biology

How development economics forgot the most important thing

Bolster civil discourse and the Great Books, or purge “commies”? The right is at war with itself over how to reform the university

Do These Centenarians Hold the Key to Long Life in Their Blood?