These Seven AI Rings Translate Sign Language in Real Time

The Real Choice Confronting Developing Countries

How Phrenology Queered Language: Walt Whitman and the Evolving Lexicon of Love

Trump Loves Accusing Critics of Treason. U.S. Law Makes That Charge Hard To Prove—for Good Reason.

"Ukraine Turns Real-Life Kills into Video Game Thrills for Drone Pilots"

The Truth About Slavery and America

Music, the Neural Harmonics of Emotion, and How Love Recomposes the Brain

Sunday Poem

Open Thread

The Satanic Temple Loses Libel Suit Against Newsweek Over "Accounts of Sexual Abuse Being Covered up" Allegation

Today in Supreme Court History: May 30, 1865

Maybe This Time

This “Feathered Dragon” Shook Its Tail Feathers in the Time of Dinosaurs

“If This Be Magic” by Daniel Hahn – A superbly diverting book about language and creativity

Bridging real human movement with digital technology

"The age when you can run a literary magazine on trust is over. You can either decide AI submissions are fine, or you can filter for them"

A Snippet of a Conversation Between ChatGPT and Me

Alasdair MacIntyre believed that Western morality, having lost its rationale, was replaced by something thinner: mere moral passion  

Sensitivity readers promise authenticity but deliver essentialism. Who really benefits when identity polices the imagination?

William Kennedy’s Hard Luck and High Style

The Left’s Institutional Capture