​What makes a good comic novel? Andrew Sean Greer on the joy of funny writing

Don Quixote: The First Modern Novel

Journey To A Novel

Thucydides the perspicacious

Lessons From Singapore: Embracing Globalism

This Ichthyosaur Chomped a Pterosaur—Then Got Chomped by Something Bigger

The Two Great Threats to Truth

Court Quashes Subpoenas to Anti-Defamation League in ASU Pro-Palestine Student Protest Case

Open Thread

Lean In—to Other People

Enchantment and the Courage of Joy: René Magritte on the Antidote to the Banality of Pessimism

Sean Carroll and Brian Greene talk physics

Trump Re-Ups the Anti-Weaponization Fund, Reinforcing the Demand That Todd Blanche Kill It for Good

The Eleven-Inch Foot

Cabbage brought nightmares, turnips brought lust, beans brought confusion. Medieval vegetables were less food than affliction

New U.S. rules on risky pathogen research draw mixed reviews

A Response To National Review's Editorial on Justice Barrett

Who's Paying for the Discounts in Mamdani's City-Run Grocery Stores?

AI versus Therapists

How to spot pseudoscience

Saving One of America’s Most Dangerous Cities