Hamilton – The Fighting Founding Father

Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research?

The game’s the thing

The Geopolitical Drag on AI Governance

Global Economic Convergence Is Stalling

New York’s Resource Curse

Three Ways AI Will Change the Course of Humanity

Alexandre Kojève and the End of History

How the Toxoplasma parasite adapts to crowded conditions in host cells

Cell-preservation technique could make CAR-T cell therapy more accessible

Border Agents Searched His Phone 5 Times Without a Warrant. He's Asking the Supreme Court To Put a Stop to It.

Colombia's New President Wants More U.S. Military Help Fighting Cartels

The “.” emerged 2,000 years ago. “?” in the 8th century, “!” in the 14th. Then not much changed since about 1600

“My wonderful horseykins,” “my little sperm whale.” If Chekhov’s love life was epistolary, what are we to make of his fondness for brothels?

Surrogacy Contracts, Abortion, and Peonage

What does Emily Wilson make of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey? It’s an “audiovisual spectacle” with little to no “narrative and emotional depth”

Ancient DNA confirms historical accounts of how smallpox got to the Americas

Trump Backs Down From Yet Another Empty Threat to Iran

C P Snow Vs. F R Leavis

Open Thread

DOGE Claimed $110 Billion in Spending Cuts That Couldn't Be Verified, Audit Finds