Perceptions

In 1970, 1 in 13 four-year degrees was in English. Today it's 1 in 60. What happened? “Canon" became a dirty word

The Apocalyptic Style in Woke Thinking

Trump Wants the FCC To Punish His Enemies

MIT Quantum Initiative launches postdoctoral fellowship program

The Fertility Crisis Isn’t Just for Rich Countries

More nothing now

Study: Peptides can form well-defined structures in harsh, Venus-like conditions

World’s biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle

A Lei for Your Losses: Joan Didion on the Art of Letting Go

A wine so thick you could write with it and pâté made from cat meat. What did boys obsess over in the Renaissance? Food

First Amendment Broadly Protects Against Speech-Based Deportation of Noncitizens, Court Rules

Siegfried Kracauer believed films could foretell political disaster. What does his approach make of today’s cinema?

Modern diet and food fad notions obscure a basic truth: For most of human existence, we have lived in the shadow of starvation

How a spelling quirk and a typesetter's blunder conspired to give us the word "weird"

Even as a young man, Franz Rosenzweig was suspicious: "You believe you are philosophizing, but you are only writing your own biography”

The Gibbon’s Gaze: A Mirror Into the Human Mind

Dolly Parton’s American Life

Today in Supreme Court History: August 29, 1967

Thursday Poem

What Might Happen to Trump’s Ill-Gotten Gains