When a Big Energy Project Turns Bad

Fifth Circuit Rejects Energy Department Direct-to-Final Rule on Home Appliances

San Francisco's 'Historic Laundromat' Project Finally Begins Construction

The ultimate scholarly shortcut, the Ars Notoria was said to instantly grant the full range of Medieval learning — but at the risk of poisoning one’s soul

Moonlight and the Magic of the Unnecessary

Few American writers have skewered the self-deluding barbarity that is American foreign policy with as much force as Dwight Macdonald

Flipping the script on biology education, and scaling it up

Fastest known star could reveal the spin of our galaxy’s giant black hole

Democrats Are Failing the Waymo Test

The Return of the Warren Court

W.G. Sebald’s poetic, picturesque accounts of Austrian literature are, at crucial points, gravely distorted

The “.” emerged 2,000 years ago. “?” in the 8th century, “!” in the 14th. Then not much changed since about 1600

“My wonderful horseykins,” “my little sperm whale.” If Chekhov’s love life was epistolary, what are we to make of his fondness for brothels?

Surrogacy Contracts, Abortion, and Peonage

On the objects a village accumulates, and what they know before you do

What does Emily Wilson make of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey? It’s an “audiovisual spectacle” with little to no “narrative and emotional depth”

Extraordinary Experiences Are More Common Than You Think

C P Snow Vs. F R Leavis

DOGE Claimed $110 Billion in Spending Cuts That Couldn't Be Verified, Audit Finds

Hack Back

"Professors' Speech in Class Has Not Been Regulated; It Has Been Hired"