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In Search of Lost Tunnels

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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

Structure of the pre-initiation complex explains CMGE biogenesis

Europe Cannot Afford Another Lost Year

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

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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

MIT’s Initiative for New Manufacturing builds momentum

Weschler on Hockney