Should the NIH Be Abolished?

In 2013 Mary Gaitskill told students to “Go home and look between your legs and tell me if that is a social construct.” All hell broke loose

Afghan Women, Too

Wednesday Poem

Mirabelli Offers a Beautiful Vision of the Emergency Docket

The path of industrialization in China — and America

The "Unitary Executive" Theory's Contribution to the Deformation of the Constitution

Open Thread

Hoover Daily Report | March 3, 2026

“There Remains the Female”: How the Theory of Avian Territory Eclipsed Sexual Selection after World War One

States Take Steps to Fight Civil Terrorism

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

The Postal Service's Recent Supreme Court Win Is Bad News for Government Accountability

Catspeak

Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness

The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece

Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Mirage

Germany’s Role in a Post-American Europe

On the Varieties of Unseeing – China Miéville’s “The City & The City”

Interviewing Jeff Koons

Trump’s Enormous Gamble on Regime Change in Iran

Will the Trump Administration Pay the Tariff Refunds It Promised?