When Monkeys Enter the Uncanny Valley

Loitering towards war

Ketamine, public cuddling, and prediction markets on just about everything pervade Manifest, a gathering of self-described “rationalists”

An Interview with Susan Sontag (1975)

MIT Professor Susumu Tonegawa, renowned molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 86

The Machinery of Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’

The 'Nuclear Nightmare' That Was Manufactured by the Media

New York Becomes the First State To Ban New Data Centers

Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

No-Contact Orders Were Meant to Protect Students—Now They’re Being Used Against Them

The Party Driving New York’s Leftward Drift

PEN America was founded in 1922 to protect free speech and defend writers. That creed has developed a blind spot

The Last of the Three Amigos

“I do support you—difficult job. But Barbara and I are bothered about the raunchy stuff—urine ... fist up rectum” 

Salary Caps Are Holding U.S. Soccer Back

A Natural Aristocracy Among Men

Open Thread

He Who "Would Be a Great Lawyer" "Must First Consent to Become a Great Drudge"

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

Tiny infrared chip could improve detection of gases and heat

Young J. G. Ballard and his family were imprisoned in a Japanese camp for a two and a half years — he called it the best time of his life