How to Apologize: Reflections on Forgiveness, Self-Forgiveness, and the Vulnerabilities of Being Human

The Art of Choosing Love Over Not-Love: Rumi’s Antidote to Our Human Tragedy

AI Is Already Making Us Less Human

Can an All-Female Nude Spa Bar Transgender Clients With Male Genitalia? The Supreme Court May Decide.

Erich Fromm’s 6 Rules of Listening: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist on the Art of Unselfish Understanding

Today in Supreme Court History: September 6, 1983

The Resilient City

Photo: AI Unfurls an Ancient Scroll

Many Space Missions Are Searching for Life Beyond Earth—But Are We Prepared for the Fallout If They Succeed?

Open Thread

Do You Have the Right To Possess an AR-15? The Supreme Court Will Soon Decide.

Sumerian tablets, Soviet cybernetics, Google server banks — human history can be seen via our ever more elaborate data apparatuses 

Anthony Fauci’s Diary Reveals a Human at the Helm

Learned Hand's Reflections On His Professors

Hoover Daily Report | September 2, 2026

How architects turned a hulking brick box into MIT’s newest academic hub

QAnon vs. the Omnicause

The political right often acts in bad faith in its attacks on academia; in response, academics lapse into tendentious moralism

During the golden age of Oxbridge dons, intellectual elites were treated as a national treasure. Then came Margaret Thatcher

Rachel Cusk’s new novel was billed as “literary scandal of the year.” But strip away the controversy and it’s instantly forgettable

Americans are indifferent to art. But they obsess over art heists. "It’s as though a nation of teetotalers chooses, year after year, to hang out in bars