Past is prologue for geopolitical developments

Court Upholds Stop-Posting-About-Your-Ex-Order, Based on Past Threats

Open Thread

Journal of Free Speech Law: "Positive Obligations, Hate Speech, and the Reconfiguration of Free Expression at the European Court of Human Rights," by Natalie Alkiviadou

Open Thread

How to Live and How to Die

David Hume, Political Philosopher

Making American Citizens

A “Trump Account” HSA?

Vali Nasr: Iran After America

Medieval parents — they're just like us! Forget the cold and indifferent caricature that has persisted for decades

For the First Time, a Look at the Arctic Bobtail Squid in Its Natural Habitat

Microfossils Help Crack Mystery More Than 100 Million Years in the Making

Ancient DNA confirms historical accounts of how smallpox got to the Americas

Lindsey Graham Gets Eulogized

"Sonny Rollins was the last feral master of an art that has become at least partly domesticated"

Federal Court Rules Against Rhode Island Town's Use of Eminent Domain for NIMBY Purposes

The ominous ‘fire clouds’ or ‘pyrocumulonimbus’ seen in France for the first time

A Bit on Pentagon Contractor's Wiretapping Claim Over Hidden Date Recording by O'Keefe Media Group

Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

'AI Kill Switch Act' Won't Stop Rogue AI, but It Will Slow Down Innovation