Strait Talk

Sam Altman, Josh Achiam, and Adrien Ecoffet talk about the future of AI

Free Speech Unmuted: Speech, Not "Conduct": Supreme Court Rules on Conversion Talk Therapy

China Is Having a Good War—So Far

The Moral Thinness of Geopolitics

When contrarianism becomes its own orthodoxy. The heterodox movement is replicating the groupthink it set out to cure 

Can Hungary Reverse Course?

Great Writers “Tell” All the Time

Dawkins’s paradox: dissecting the body’s battle to keep selfish genes in check

The man, the mind, the series, and 314 trillion digits

Tuesday Poem

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Strait Outta Commission

We need to talk about salaries in science

Why Trump Thinks He Can Walk Away From the Strait of Hormuz

Lessons From the Strait of Hormuz Standoff

Paul Giamatti & Stephen Asma talk about Writing, Acting, and the Untamed Imagination

Conversion Therapy Bans, as Applied to Talk Therapy, Regulate Speech and Not Just Conduct

The Energy Transition Has Its Own Strait of Hormuz

Energy Lessons of the Strait of Hormuz Standoff

Why Democrats Should Talk About Trump's Tariffs as a 'Threat to the Rule of Law'

Venezuelan Democracy Needs Action, Not Cheap Talk