The Microfinance Debate Is Missing the Point

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

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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

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

The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother

Buying Beer Is Both Legal and Illegal on Sunday Nights in Minnesota

Why Tejal Patwardhan stopped underestimating the AI models

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Debate over whether David Foster Wallace was a virtuosic bully or a genius with a heart of gold has eclipsed consideration of his work

Plagiarism: Nabokov called it unconscious. Dylan told his accusers to rot in hell. Both had a point

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?

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

Weschler on Hockney

Necessary Losses: The Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go

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Today in Supreme Court History: June 19, 1992