Is Europe Finally Taking Responsibility for Its Own Defense?

Europe Cannot Afford Another Lost Year

Turn to Europe

The Declaration of the Enslaved

Open Thread

Peace With Iran Is All About Lebanon Now

What is this rock?

My Descent Into Mah-Jongg

What Makes a Person: The Seven Layers of Selfhood in Literature and Life

The Fed Has Been Honest and Stupid

No Bridge Over Healing Waters for the G7

When Duchamp took New York: Europe spurned him, so he decamped to America, where he was met with exaltation and outrage

What if Europe Loses Access to Its Climate Data?

In Defense of Difficult Reading

Gordon Wood's Enduring Defense of the American Revolution

“After all the testing and lotteries and nail-biting, this is it?” Even New York parents are growing tired of gifted and talented programs

Children’s literature used to get reviewed in serious outlets. That’s stopped — and has that turned the genre to “crud”?

Is a new academic report with a dry title a “diabolically evil” plot to undermine the humanities? Or will it save them?  

Generational Debts of Gratitude

Terrorists and Criminals Reportedly Got $37.5 Billion From COVID Relief and Other U.K. Aid Programs

274 Years Ago Today, Benjamin Franklin Flew a Kite