The Best Graduation Speech Is One Nobody Remembers

The Global War on Free Speech

Court Orders Reinstatement of Untenured Professor Allegedly Non-Renewed for Speech About "the Palestinian Resistance"

In Praise of the Useless: Bertrand Russell’s Salve for Hard Times

René Daumal’s Sermon on the Mount

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Has the University of Wisconsin Really Abandoned DEI?

He was a spy, a Zen priest, a fisherman, and a Bigfoot obsessive: Peter Matthiessen never had just one life

Was Xi Jinping Inevitable?

Bioelectric Contact Lenses Alleviate Depression in Mice

Rights require money

D.C. Circuit Seems Disinclined To Let Pete Hegseth Punish a Senator for His Speech

Where the Russia-Ukraine war stands today

Israel's Conduct in Gaza Does Not Resemble Genocide

The problem with a literary culture of images is that images have an exceptionally short shelf life. People soon grow bored with them

Open Thread

Will Trump Betray Taiwan?

The NCAA Is Making Unpopular Decisions at Exactly the Wrong Time

Power without Ideology

The DSA’s Politicization of Public Office

The Wrong Kind of Black Poet