Christopher Hitchens on Mortality

AI has limits, even if many AI people can’t see them

Solid Proof That Our Mammal Ancestors Laid Eggs

Federal Reserve: Without Tariffs, Inflation Would Have Dropped to Pre-Pandemic Levels During 2025

The Phantom Base

The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire

How to See More Clearly and Love More Purely: Iris Murdoch on the Angst of Not Knowing Ourselves and Each Other

The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear

The Eradication Of Grief

To Work for Us, AI Must Not Think for Us

“In my day, artists kept it real” is a sentiment that will never get old — as long as aging critics keep employing it

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

SCOTUS Resolves Two-Way State Court Split About New Jersey Transit

Zero-sum bias in politicized problem solving

How Bombing Iran May Blow Back on America

Alleged Threats Against Alleged Groomers / Sex Traffickers of Minors Don't Justify Sealing of Personal Information / Pseudonymity

Thawing ICE

Autonomous AI Agents Have an Ethics Problem

Marc Andreessen’s Mistake

Hillary Clinton Knows Nothing

No Compulsion in Islam

Selective Outrage Won’t End the Iran War