Solving the solvent problem

Reframing leadership as a design problem

The Problem with City-Owned Grocery Stores

Our Friend with the "Attractive, Busty Jewess" Problem Drops Case Against Harvard Rather Than Naming Himself

Tuesday Poem

The Canary in the AI Coal Mine

Lean In—to Other People

The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta

Towards an AI for Africa

Archives: August/September 2026

A Trojan Horse Is Supposed to Have Humans Inside It

New York Becomes the First State To Ban New Data Centers

Games People Play: The Revolutionary 1964 Model of Human Relationships That Changed How We (Mis)Understand Ourselves and Each Other

Mario Vargas Llosa spent decades exposing the seductions of ideology. Then he proved susceptible to a new one

With age, Auden's brilliance on the page grew ever more estranged from his unwashed, drug-and-drink addled private existence

Federal Judge Halts Minnesota's Prediction Market Ban, Signaling Other States' Efforts Might Be Illegal Too

Open Thread

Yu Deng ’11 and Hong Wang PhD ’19 awarded Fields Medal

Open Thread

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

Lindsey Graham's Sister Tapped To Replace Him in the Senate