Second Circuit Reinstates Death Penalty Charges in Buffalo Supermarket Federal Murder Trial

Chinese university launches probe into girl’s gene-editing death

Pentagon Death Numbers

§ 230 Preempts Texas Mandates on Social Media Platforms, Fifth Circuit Holds by 2-1 Vote

Trump Says He Believes in Giving People a 'Second Chance.' For 6,000 People, the Answer Was No.

Second Lawsuit Challenging Trump's New Section 301 Tariffs Filed

Trenchant but sententious, John Berger could sound like Platonov one moment, the next like Alain de Botton

In search of the northern cassowary

The Newcomer

Are Autonomous Cars More Dangerous Than Uber Drivers?

Mysterious Human Relative Was Bigger Than Previously Thought

Antidotes to Fear of Death: Astronomer and Poet Rebecca Elson’s Stunning Cosmic Salve for Existential Tremors

Life, Death, and Who We Are Online

Odd January 6 Trial Follow-On: Copying Expert's Report from Another Case, to File It in Your Case, May Infringe Copyright

A Federal Judge Slams Trump's IRS Lawsuit As a Pretext for Delivering a Phony 'Settlement'

Second Amendment Roundup: New Jersey Rifle and Magazine Bans Bite the Dust

The Secret Effort to Prevent the Revolution

No, we are not post-literate. The reading panic is merely the result of histrionic op-eds that misdiagnose the erosion of literary culture

In 1994, Stanley Fish described deconstruction as dead in the same way that Freudianism is dead. "It is everywhere.” He had a point

For some conservatives, the Great Books are simply an anti-woke bulwark. But the case for them is much grander and more provocative 

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