Why the Worst Get on Top

Trump names Bill Pulte acting director of national intelligence

The UN’s special rapporteurs are experts charged with a singular mandate: to monitor the world’s worst human rights abuses

Radical proposal would block solar storms with orbital ‘airbag’

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

Sunday Poem

Indiana Police Misplace More Than $30,000 Seized in Massage Parlor Raids

Open Thread

Motherland on High

Spiraling Out of Control

The Trump Administration Wants to Frighten Would-Be Whistleblowers

Trump’s Border Win

"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

Watch Immune System Cells Gobble Up Cancer Cells

She called Judith Butler evil and Susan Sontag boring. Camille Paglia is 79 and unrepentant 

Flickering Enlightenment

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

William Kennedy’s Hard Luck and High Style

Sally Kornbluth’s charge to the Class of 2026

The Left’s Institutional Capture

Open Thread