Should We Eradicate Mosquitoes?

Open Thread

Georgia Cop Claimed Petting Zoo Donkey Was Charging at His Team When He Shot It

A Liberal Think Tank and an Air Force Major Are Trump's Latest Targets for Speech Policing

Setting the table: depictions of Christ’s Last Supper

Why Pakistani’s Read Less?

Is Implanted “Knowledge” Knowledge?

Lion King Composer vs. Comedian Dispute Leads to ~$40K Attorney Fee Award Against Composer

Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions

Terence Tao explains 6 essential concepts of math

Babitz bubbles, Renata revivals, Hardwick hurricanes: How NYRB Classics built its name by resurrecting old and overlooked novelists

Today in Supreme Court History: August 27, 1948

Soviet censors mangled Vasily Grossman's wartime journalism. The original copy reveals a palimpsest of what propaganda demanded

Against the Lewis Model

How a spelling quirk and a typesetter's blunder conspired to give us the word "weird"

The Gibbon’s Gaze: A Mirror Into the Human Mind

9/11 Turbocharged America's Worst Foreign Policy Impulses—but Didn't Change Its Direction

WPATH’s Bizarre Claim

Sunday Poem

This Is What Happens When 1,000 People Bury Their Underwear for Science

Abdul El-Sayed’s Hasan Piker Problem