What Would Mark Twain Think of America at 250?

MIT in the media: Innovating and educating for the next 250 years of America

America At 250 & Beyond

Tiny honorariums, endless reading, and a bewildering amount of randomness — book prizes don’t work how you think

The Essence of America Is Freedom

The Emergence of a Deadly Hunting Technology in Prehistoric North America

Lerna Ekmekcioglu named head of MIT's History Section

Scott Alexander on Parenthood

Pete Buttigieg’s Ordeal Is a Frightening New Form of Political Harassment

Where Kant and Rousseau theorized, George Forster sailed the world to learn what makes humans human

When The Machines Deserve Our Consideration

The Loneliest Road in America

Open Thread

Inaugural Music Technology Research Showcase celebrates work of new graduate program’s initial students

Open Thread

The Fiscally Conservative Revolution

I’ll Tell You How The Sun Sets

Oscar Wilde foresaw machines freeing humanity for beauty and leisure. Greed has other plans

What Do You Do When You Lose Gigantic Megalodon Shark Vertebrae?

A National House in Disorder

Today in Supreme Court History: June 30, 2014