How the Right to Trial Became a Legal Fiction

Michel Foucault, who warned against domination, became dominant himself. He'd have savored the irony 

Patricia Evangelista on journalism

Andy Serkis on Animal Farm, Authoritarianism, and Humanizing Monsters

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Emergency! and the Legalization of Paramedic Services

The Quintessential Politician of This Era

The Scourge of Teen Takeovers

New method aims to keep kids safe from illegal AI-generated content

Democrats Became Great By Fighting the Left

How Social Media Became Antisocial

We are becoming participants in a vast philosophical experiment: Will Kant or Nietzsche be proven right?

Salvation Army Has First Amendment Right to Ban Methodone Use by People in Its Adult Rehabilitation Centers

Open Thread

The Missing Ingredient for European Tech Sovereignty

When the ability to smell goes away

Young John Berryman revered the elder generation of poets. By 1947, though, he diagnosed “a deadly and vacant period” in American poetry

In Praise of the World Cup’s Little Guys

She Came to the U.S. at 4 Months Old. She Had To Self-Deport—Because She Came Here Legally.