States Built the Activist Classroom. They Can Also Dismantle It.

More States Should Use This Tool to Prevent Fraud

Strong resistance to AI among writers is understandable but it obscures what we share with the machines: language itself

Open Thread

Meet the leader of the Department of Biology’s all-important “kitchen”

Is there life after death? The psychiatrist Ian Stevenson spent his life collecting evidence. What he found was suggestive, but unprovable

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

Federal Court Strikes Down Immigration-Related Subpoenas of Minnesota Officials on Anti-Commandeering Grounds

The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother

Buying Beer Is Both Legal and Illegal on Sunday Nights in Minnesota

Why Tejal Patwardhan stopped underestimating the AI models

If Prime Numbers Become Increasingly Rare, Then Why Do They Keep Showing Up In Pairs?

Swift, Pope, and Gay gathered at Twickenham in 1726. They shared a villa, and a witty contempt for their age

Louisiana Cops Threatened To Arrest a Man for Handing Out Religious Leaflets. They Got Qualified Immunity.

Who Speaks For The Majority In Hunter v. United States?

Americans Still Believe in the Founding—and Want Schools To Teach Capitalism

What killed the masquerade ball: the rise of evangelical moral values or an increasing affordability, which rendered it less appealing to the aristocracy?

Dwight Macdonald opposed World War II, denounced the atom bomb, and never found an ideological home. Was he right?

A Supreme Court Decision Restricting Appeal Waivers Underlines the Injustice of Coercive Plea Bargaining

Weschler on Hockney

Debate over whether David Foster Wallace was a virtuosic bully or a genius with a heart of gold has eclipsed consideration of his work