Elon Musk’s controversial takeover of Twitter has led many commentators to wonder if the platform can be improved by its new owner. In this roundtable, three writers offer their thoughts and suggestions.
How an enterprising doctor, an elite university, and negligent public officials turned a city prison system into the largest human research factory in America.
The progressive and the traditionalist are equally detached from the underlying reality as currently described by science.
Solzhenitsyn’s Ivan Denisovich at 60.
In his new book, Murakami attempts to set the limits of what he wants people to know about him—and that isn’t much.
As we await the release of Woody Allen’s 50th feature film, his biographer looks back on the career of one of America’s great cinematic artists.
The human brain evolved to be religious, but religion also evolved to appeal to the human brain.
It remains the only proven technology capable of serving the energy needs of de-carbonized modern society.
Australia’s unnecessary new NHMRC policy will lead to a decline in scientific quality.
David Graeber and David Wengrow’s tendentious assault on the Enlightenment and its modern defenders is a bust.
Imposing gender quotas for research funding is counterproductive and sets a dangerous new precedent.
The rise of Munchausen by Internet syndrome is inseparable from the spread of online subcultures that valorize disability.
What caused L. Ron Hubbard to turn on a discipline he had once accepted?
Not so long ago, he taught us, there were at least three distinct hominin lineages roaming large parts of the planet.
As a society, we should not presume to judge the relationships of others based on our own moral code.