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

Can You Un-Impeach a President?

The Hittite Empire

We Live in the Age of Milton Friedman

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

When the blogosphere gave way to Substack, writers gained audiences but lost each other. Noah Smith explains

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

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MIT Open Learning reaches all the way to the South Pole

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?

Paracelsus & the Womb of Being

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