Dario Amodei: We Must Pace the AI Frontier

How a Street Brawl Led to a 5th Circuit Case That Casts Doubt on the Constitutionality of Many Federal Laws

A Judge Ordered ICE Agents To Stop Retaliating Against an Ohio Videographer. ICE Moved the Agents Out of Town.

Today in Supreme Court History: September 12, 1958

Is all the hate for Rachel Cusk’s latest novel merely a misunderstanding of its genre, and the terms the book sets out for itself?

The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream

Who Will Pay

The Birth of the New Legal Right

The Imperial Icon: Why Gloria Steinem’s Feminism is Not Mine

Open Thread

The Giant Squids of the Jurassic Period

What We Remember

Sam Altman on Astra, AGI, and the future of OpenAI

This Snake’s Tail Has a Fake “Spider” at the Tip

Making revisions

Today in Supreme Court History: September 10, 1949

The Silver Lining to Empty Subsidized Apartments

Looking back at what I wrote about the 9/11 attacks 20 years ago: “How we became important”

Literature without lust? For Leslie Fiedler, the American canon was adventure books, sea tales, and other prepubescent diet fare 

I Long to Read More in the Book of You: Moomins Creator Tove Jansson’s Tender and Passionate Letters to the Love of Her Life

Anthony Fauci’s Diary Reveals a Human at the Helm