The Best American Essays 2025 (Mariner) is an anthology of 21 nonfiction prose pieces written by North American writers in 2024 and selected in 2025. In a word, this selection is encouraging, in part ...

The benefits of surveillance are vastly outweighed by the costs.

No wonder that, as AI grows rapidly more powerful, experts in the field are gloomily predicting a catastrophe. Some warn of a ...

Recent defenders of state paternalism argue that traditional objections fail to identify anything distinctively problematic ...

Religious violenceI was quite taken aback by Anna Piela and Michael Woolf’s article (“The making of Islamophobia”). I want to ...

I wanted to feel like, when I made a complaint against my local police department, it would be taken seriously. I wanted an easy way to get clear and transparent data about police misconduct ...

What the AI jobs panic is missing.

A "mock apartheid wall' criticizing Israel and the response to it show that free speech and academic freedom continue thrive at San Diego State University.

Today, only a small number of humans possess the technical capacities and materials necessary for engineering a supervirus.

Mathematicians and physicists often boast about their ‘Erdős number’, defined by their degrees of separation from him in ...

Lately in the media, in education and other industries, there has been a real upsurge in usage of Generative AI for writing. Most probably, Chat ...

When Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney visited Australia last week, he had a message about Australia's and Canada's shared ...