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Starting with the recent accusations of gang rape against 7 denizens of a fraternity at Cornell University, Bill Maher’s latest real-time episode takes out after the Greek houses, including sororities ...

I’m sneaking this against orders—but “I’ve got a hunch”—and I wanted to write these words to you. I’ve made a long voyage and been to a strange country, and I’ve seen the dark man very close; and I ...

*The Supreme Court’s new term began yesterday, and it’s expected to adjudicate about 60 cases in this session. The NYT morning newsletter describes three important ones: My colleagues Ann E. Marimow ...

Today’s Jesus and Mo cartoon, called “winners” , came with the statement, “He wouldn’t have minded a bit of luxury.” ...

Here are three videos and several articles on October 7 that are worth watching and reading. First, one from Coleman Hughes: “Inside Israel’s war room: what really happened after October 7.” (Subtitle ...

Just recently we were talking about chirality (“handedness”) in the molecules of life: organisms use only L amino acids in proteins and D sugars in the DNA ladder, although opposite-handed molecules ...

In the past few years these contests often lacked winners, so I’m increasing your chances this year by eliminating the sciences and economics from the guesses (two science prizes have already been ...

Remember the “Dire Wolves” that Colossal Biosciences pretended to have brought back from extinction? (See all my posts on this ruse here.) Although Colossal said it had “de-extincted” the dire wolf, ...

Here’s the second sex post of the day. The paper’s intro to the two essays is just this: Note: We asked two thinkers to address one of the most vexed questions of our time: “What is a woman?” Here, ...

Welcome to Sunday, September 6, 2026, the second day of a three-day weekend, for tomorrow is Labor Day in America. It’s also National Read a Book Day (note, they don’t say “Listen to a book”). I’m on ...