Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian Columbia student snatched by ICE, writes about his Kafkaesque ordeal with a quiet fury

The Carapace Cracks

Sound guardians

He was probably right

The Pickaxe Mountain Trap: Why a Tactical Nuke Won’t Stop Iran—And Could Wreck the American Economy

America Needs a New Urban Vision

Critical theory can be used to convey sophistication — but when it goes wrong, the whiff of pretension and arrogance is unmistakable

The Libertarian Case for Flock

Unmasking “zombie cells” in aging tissue with an AI-powered barcode

The Pinball President

The One, the Many, and the In-Between

How Did the Nation Get Its Name? Other Suggestions Included the United Colonies, Columbia and the United States of Alleghania

How MIT student communities help develop lifelong skills and connections

The Justification for New Time Limits on Student Visas 'Borders on the Absurd,' a Federal Judge Says

Keep Race Out of Student Discipline

Why collect stamps? Explanations include nostalgia, anal-retentiveness, erotic frustration, and the desire to escape into a remote, private world

You Have Two Brains, Not One

Cosmic amnesia

“The precarity of art in the 21st century has led Gen Z to forsake subcultural credibility for an instrumentalized careerism”

Open Thread

“Technology is the equalizer”