Fauci Pleads the Fifth, Pluribus, Ross Douthat's New CBS Gig

Under fire from Republican senators, Fauci takes the Fifth at COVID-19 hearing

At Senate Hearing, Fauci Takes the Fifth To Avoid Accounting for Inconsistent Statements About a Lab Leak

The Fauci Diaries and the Cult of Judicial Celebrity

Anthony Fauci Refuses to Answer Rand Paul's Questions After Diary Disclosures Go Viral

How Celebrities Became America’s Unregulated Drug Pushers

Dinosaurs May Have Been Literally Charbroiled After the Asteroid Impact

Pentagon Contractor's Libel Claim Over Hidden Date Recording by O'Keefe Media Group Can Go Forward

New York City’s Hate Crime Problem Needs a Law-and-Order Solution

Fossil skull flattening suggests ancient origins of infant helplessness

The Knowledge of the First Civilizations | Dr. Irving Finkel

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

“I’m not a provocateur,” insists Alex Byrne, the MIT philosopher who helped author a report for the Trump administration on youth gender medicine

Xanadu, the "Home of Tomorrow" that promised automation as liberation, was run on a "house brain," another word for mother

Open Thread

'AI Kill Switch Act' Won't Stop Rogue AI, but It Will Slow Down Innovation

Nolan’s Odyssey v. Homer’s Odyssey

Open Thread

When Stupid Was a Diagnosis

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

Mole Rat Queens Stink Their Way to Power