Today Was the Day Galileo Caved

Today in Supreme Court History: June 21, 1989

Today in Supreme Court History: June 22, 1992

Strong resistance to AI among writers is understandable but it obscures what we share with the machines: language itself

Can You Un-Impeach a President?

The Hittite Empire

We Live in the Age of Milton Friedman

Open Thread

Meet the leader of the Department of Biology’s all-important “kitchen”

Is there life after death? The psychiatrist Ian Stevenson spent his life collecting evidence. What he found was suggestive, but unprovable

Why U.K. Socialism Could Soon Be America's Problem

Today in Supreme Court History: June 19, 1992

Today in Supreme Court History: June 16, 1960

Today in Supreme Court History: June 18, 1787

Today in Supreme Court History: June 20, 1837

Today in Supreme Court History: June 17, 1963

Americans Still Believe in the Founding—and Want Schools To Teach Capitalism

What killed the masquerade ball: the rise of evangelical moral values or an increasing affordability, which rendered it less appealing to the aristocracy?

Dwight Macdonald opposed World War II, denounced the atom bomb, and never found an ideological home. Was he right?

Paracelsus & the Womb of Being

A Supreme Court Decision Restricting Appeal Waivers Underlines the Injustice of Coercive Plea Bargaining