"Gossip," "Abusive Language," and "Soft Beta Males" in Public Comments at School Board Meetings

Open Thread

Mamdani’s First Veto Exposes His Radical Activist Roots

Poem by Jim Culleny

Luis Garicano on the Economics of Artificial Intelligence

The Force and the Flower: Poet and Potter M.C. Richards on Creativity

Dwight Garner: “The thin crust of American intellectual life, long flaking, has begun to show bald patches”

Sunday Poem

Self-organizing “pencil beam” laser could help scientists design brain-targeted therapies

Judge Finds Epstein-Related Plaintiff Lies, Spoliation, and Lawyer Misconduct in Rape Lawsuit Against Investor Leon Black

Why Cooperation Falls Apart Over Time

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Court Rejects Facial Challenge to Iowa Law Barring Public School K-6 Programming Related to "Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation"

Iowa Law Requiring Parental Notification as to Accommodations "Intended to Affirm [Public School] Student's Gender Identity" Upheld

Equal Protection Clause Challenge to Single-Sex Public School Classes Can Go Forward

Kentucky Law Lets Citizens Live-Stream Public Agency Meetings Using Cell Phones

The Names of the Game: Moral Language and the Killing of Alex Pretti

Dan Bovino's Comments About U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen's Shabbat Observance

Anti-Hate Poster Has No Home in Ohio Classroom, Says School District

After Public Backlash, Tom Homan Says Feds Will End Immigration Enforcement Surge in Minnesota

Brickbat: School Daze

Who's Being Pornographic Here? (And Were Pornography Allegations Related to School Library Book Reading Defamatory?)