On a Poetics That Subverts Linear Chronology

In place of Middlemarch and Montaigne, we have Mr. Beast. The post-literacy thesis sounds compelling, until you begin to unpack it

America’s Shifting Blue-Collar Landscape

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Half the Public Wants To Pause AI. Would Regulation Actually Make It Safer?

Today in Supreme Court History: September 24, 1755

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California’s Climate Offsets Go Up in Smoke

“Reading is like exercise. You have to go a little bit beyond what you’re comfortable with, a little bit more than you can really do”

Glenn Gould was fabulously neurotic, opinionated, and flamboyant. Seventy years on, his Bach still sets the standard

A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety

The “Most Complete” Mastodon Tooth Ever Found

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Rising wealth inequality is a problem

The Cost of Not Building Data Centers

Open Thread

THE MIDTERMS AND THE NEW FACE OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE

In 2011, a reddish hair was found in Thomas Jefferson's bible. That discovery prompted a decade of DNA testing – and a lot of ill will

Anthony Fauci’s Diary Reveals a Human at the Helm

MIT School of Engineering faculty and staff receive awards in spring 2026

The End Of Upward Mobility