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Today in Supreme Court History: September 25, 1981

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Japan’s Science Council to face greater governmental oversight

Open Thread

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A new technique could accelerate the development of RNA therapies

On audiophilia

Ingeborg Bachmann’s “Plunges Into Silence”

Friday Poem

How Gentle Tapping on the Shin Heals the Brain

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Glenn Gould was fabulously neurotic, opinionated, and flamboyant. Seventy years on, his Bach still sets the standard

A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety

Let The People Set The Pace Of Frontier AI

Trump’s 21st-Century Mercantilism

New In Civitas: The Smithsonian Should Be Privatized

Pangolins Are Some of the Most Illegally Trafficked Animals on the Planet. A Rediscovered Species Could Help

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