Chasing the Ideal Dog

Many Space Missions Are Searching for Life Beyond Earth—But Are We Prepared for the Fallout If They Succeed?

If Canada is 'Ripping Off' the U.S., Why Is It Falling Behind?

The True Purpose of Tarot

RFK Jr.'s MAHA Cooking Show Is Government Propaganda. I Kind of Love It?

Open Thread

The secret life of a cell-cycle gatekeeper of breast cancer

Liberal Education Worthy of the Name

The Argument We Forgot How to Have

Gloria Steinem (1934 – 2026) Feminist, Journalist, CIA Agent

Hoover Daily Report | September 4, 2026

Before puritanism and personality cults made it boring, affect theory brimmed with real intellectual potential. Laura Kipnis explains

The End of Oak Street Is a Nasty, Effective Exercise in Dino Terror

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

How Art Invented Humanity

Almost three-quarters of England is now in drought conditions

Massive herbarium merger rescues century-old plant collection

Trump Is Expanding Executive Power. Democrats Are Already Eyeing the New Tools.

QAnon vs. the Omnicause

The political right often acts in bad faith in its attacks on academia; in response, academics lapse into tendentious moralism

Trump Once Promised International Students Green Cards. Now The Government Might Charge Them $100,000 To Work.