June 2025

What if your first encounter with Shakespeare or Herman Melville was with an AI avatar in history class?

‘When I go at it in these campaigns, I truly want to win and I want to win in a material way’

Over the past 20 years we’ve seen the intellectual degradation of both electorate and elected

Surely there are other – better – ways to help a child who is struggling at school than to accept medication as an easy option

For the whole of its political history, the EU has been in harmony with the Democratic party

The center has seen half a century of American presidents come and go, each leaving their fingerprints on its marble halls

The Dems have seized upon Garcia as a moral life jacket whose buoyancy they are counting on to save them

Their focus is less on the budget and more on representing the views of working-class voters

Donald Trump’s obsessive ‘awhairness’ makes you wonder: why is it so important to him?

The President likes cheap labor

There’s another office Trump could seek – one that affords as much protection from prosecution or assassination as the presidency does

Rather than signaling decay, the growth of suburban and exurban communities represents the cutting edge of 21st-century urbanism

It does not help that everything is political nowadays. Everything

I wish more elderly people made an effort to have younger friends

How do you make a ‘dark’ version of an ideology whose guiding principle was ‘the more fanatical, the better?’

‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ is a truism for good reason

Blame the Soviets for them

Before he died from leukemia in 2006, Carlo created a website about miracles linked to the Eucharist

Investors would be rash to bet against the US, and in particular its tech industry

Einstein’s beautiful simplicity is under attack

Science is packed with committees deciding on ethics… but there are few that decide whether it is safe

Just four years ago, for one intoxicating year, Wall Street was a neon-lit party