Salman Rushdie on Voltaire’s “Candide”

Can Nerd Camp Be Saved?

My New Lawfare Article on Why "The President Doesn't Have Unlimited Power to Impose Import Bans"

Poultry and paranoia in the Great White North

Russia Needs to Tell the Truth About a Plague Death

From the Great Sphinx’s Raw Materials, a New Crocodile Species Surfaces

Why “Zombie Cells” Build Up as We Age

"Federal Judges Receive Life Tenure—Not a Life Sentence"

Tuesday Poem

Is the National Book Foundation Painting Itself into a Corner?

Mighty Sparrow (1935 – 2026) Calypso King

Don’t Miss Saturn in All its Glory This Weekend

Six biology breakthroughs that should have won a Nobel Prize—but didn’t

The AIs Are Not Going Rogue

No Sealing of Property Information in Motion Challenging Diversity Jurisdiction

The 'missed disease' that affects 190 million: endometriosis drug shows early promise

Wednesday Poem

Against Brute Force: D.H. Lawrence on the Superpower of Vulnerability

The FDA Promises To Streamline the Dauntingly Complex Rules for Approving Nicotine Products

Who Is Claude Trying to Kid?

Return Of The Repressed In Germany