The Enduring Enlightenment?

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Reflecting Pool Debacle Is a Shorthand for Trump's Failing Second Term

The Court That Will Believe Absolutely Anything Is ‘Race-Neutral’

Why are humanists so bad at defending the humanities? There is a more persuasive case, and it’s been ignored

Summer 2026 recommended reading from MIT

New Essay: Obergefell's Second Decade

David Thomson spent 60 years celebrating cinema. Now he thinks movies may have ruined us

Is a European Single Market for Energy Such a Good Idea?

Antenna array could provide protected tactical satellite communications in low-Earth orbit

Why U.K. Socialism Could Soon Be America's Problem

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Oscar Wilde said there is only good art and bad art — the artist's morality is beside the point. But it's not that simple 

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Improving the speed and energy-efficiency of AI agents

The Odyssey has survived three millennia. Can it survive a $250 million movie adaptation?

Dinosaurs, crocodilo-pythons, and other monsters populated the “lost world” novels that thrived between the 1880s and 1920s

Open Thread

America's Founders Blended Liberalism and Religion

Today in Supreme Court History: June 23, 1987