The Greatest Short Story Writers of All Time

Who is the greatest short story writer of all time? According to one data cruncher, it’s not Chekhov or Barthelme, but Joyce Carol Oates

History is the story of corrupt elites and the virtuous activists who oppose them. Or so it was, formulaically, for Howard Zinn

Few American writers have skewered the self-deluding barbarity that is American foreign policy with as much force as Dwight Macdonald

Tony Is an Anthony Bourdain Origin Story

Admired in his time by Dickens, Byron, and Mary Shelley, Washington Irving’s reputation has been in steep decline ever since

Why It Might Be Time to Rethink the Human Family Tree

Bad Reasons and Worse Reasons to Hate Data Centers

An Ungrateful Public Underappreciates Data Centers

Startup brings ancient Roman concrete technology to modern construction

Routledge Handbook of Classical Liberalism Available for Free on Amazon Kindle

The ominous ‘fire clouds’ or ‘pyrocumulonimbus’ seen in France for the first time

Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

The Ceuta Crisis Is About More Than Migration

NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers

Magic or realism? genetic variants seem to protect against Alzheimer’s disease

Flexible brain circuits can switch between different tasks

Professor Emeritus Chiang Chung Mei, pioneering scholar of ocean wave dynamics and fluid mechanics, dies at 91

Nails in the Stochastic Parrots Coffin

The Capacity to Control

The Canary in the AI Coal Mine