The Six Main Arcs in Storytelling, as Identified by an A.I. by Adrienne LaFrance

The Six Main Arcs in Storytelling, as Identified by an A.I. by Adrienne LaFrance

The Anatomy of Liberal Melancholy by J.M. Bernays

The Anatomy of Liberal Melancholy by J.M. Bernays

Technology Is Only Making Social Skills More Important by Nicole Torres

Technology Is Only Making Social Skills More Important by Nicole Torres

Twenty Two Ways to Think about the Climate-Change Debate by Max Borders

Twenty Two Ways to Think about the Climate-Change Debate by Max Borders

The climate crew: alienating allies and fighting the wrong fights from A Chemist in Langley

The climate crew: alienating allies and fighting the wrong fights from A Chemist in Langley

Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern by Bruno Latour

Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern by Bruno Latour

On the happy life by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

On the happy life by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Murders In US Very Concentrated: 54% of US Counties In 2014 Had Zero Murders, 2% of Counties Have 51% of the Murders from CPRC Research

Murders In US Very Concentrated: 54% of US Counties In 2014 Had Zero Murders, 2% of Counties Have 51% of the Murders from CPRC Research

Reports Of Extreme Income Inequality Are Exaggerated Due To Shift In S-Corporation Income Among The Very Wealthiest by Paul Caron

Reports Of Extreme Income Inequality Are Exaggerated Due To Shift In S-Corporation Income Among The Very Wealthiest by Paul Caron

How to Avoid a Tech Counterrevolution by Leonid Bershidsky

How to Avoid a Tech Counterrevolution by Leonid Bershidsky

How Your Digital Helper May Undermine Your Welfare, and Our Democracy by Maurice E. Stucke and Ariel Ezrachi

How Your Digital Helper May Undermine Your Welfare, and Our Democracy by Maurice E. Stucke and Ariel Ezrachi

An Apple a Day, and Other Myths by George Johnson

An Apple a Day, and Other Myths by George Johnson

Icelanders Seek to Keep Their Language Alive and Out of ‘the Latin Bin’ by the Associated Press

Icelanders Seek to Keep Their Language Alive and Out of ‘the Latin Bin’ by the Associated Press

The formal structure of paranoid leftism (why there is no such thing as a noble error) by Justin Murphy

The formal structure of paranoid leftism (why there is no such thing as a noble error) by Justin Murphy

98% of Digital Health Startups Are Zombies - Here's How Successful Startups Avoid That Fate by Dave Chase

98% of Digital Health Startups Are Zombies - Here's How Successful Startups Avoid That Fate by Dave Chase

The Vanishing Liberal Arts Degree by Walter Russell Mead

The Vanishing Liberal Arts Degree by Walter Russell Mead

The Liberal Case for Character in a Populist Age by Richard V. Reeves and Dimitrios Halikias

The Liberal Case for Character in a Populist Age by Richard V. Reeves and Dimitrios Halikias

The Media Bubble Is Worse Than You Think by Jack Shafer and Tucker Doherty

The Media Bubble Is Worse Than You Think by Jack Shafer and Tucker Doherty

Enough Stranger Danger! Children Rarely Abducted by Those They Don't Know by Elizabeth Nolan Brown

Enough Stranger Danger! Children Rarely Abducted by Those They Don't Know by Elizabeth Nolan Brown

How America got fleeced by TurboTax by Jeff Spross

How America got fleeced by TurboTax by Jeff Spross

How 'Settled Science' Helped Create A Massive Public Health Crisis by John Merline

How 'Settled Science' Helped Create A Massive Public Health Crisis by John Merline

That Time a Professional Football Team Fact-Checked The New York Times by Eric Boehm

That Time a Professional Football Team Fact-Checked The New York Times by Eric Boehm

The Rhetorical Trap at the Heart of the “Neurosexism” Debate by Claire Lehmann and Debra W Soh

The Rhetorical Trap at the Heart of the “Neurosexism” Debate by Claire Lehmann and Debra W Soh

The Limits of Information by Daniel N. Robinson

The Limits of Information by Daniel N. Robinson

No, Gov. Dean, there is no ‘hate speech’ exception to the First Amendment by Eugene Volokh

No, Gov. Dean, there is no ‘hate speech’ exception to the First Amendment by Eugene Volokh

Survival of the Fittest: The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Firm Exit by Dara Lee Luca and Michael Luca

Survival of the Fittest: The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Firm Exit by Dara Lee Luca and Michael Luca

The myth of the disillusioned Trump voter by Aaron Blake

The myth of the disillusioned Trump voter by Aaron Blake

"Collaboration" Creates Mediocrity Not Excellence, According to Science by Geoffrey James

"Collaboration" Creates Mediocrity Not Excellence, According to Science by Geoffrey James

For Profit, Anti-Poverty by John Tierney

For Profit, Anti-Poverty by John Tierney

Does Media Violence Predict Societal Violence? It Depends on What You Look at and When by Christopher J. Ferguson

Does Media Violence Predict Societal Violence? It Depends on What You Look at and When by Christopher J. Ferguson

The Crisis of Attention Theft—Ads That Steal Your Time for Nothing in Return by Tim Wu

The Crisis of Attention Theft—Ads That Steal Your Time for Nothing in Return by Tim Wu

Caution: Debate Over Speed Bumps Ahead by Tyler Cowen

Caution: Debate Over Speed Bumps Ahead by Tyler Cowen

British spies were first to spot Trump team's links with Russia by Luke Harding, Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Nick Hopkins

British spies were first to spot Trump team's links with Russia by Luke Harding, Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Nick Hopkins

Even artificial intelligence can acquire biases against race and gender by Matthew Hutson

Even artificial intelligence can acquire biases against race and gender by Matthew Hutson

Does Sexy Media Promote Teen Sex? A Meta-Analytic and Methodological Review by Christopher J. Ferguson, Rune K. L. Nielsen and Patrick M. Markey

Does Sexy Media Promote Teen Sex? A Meta-Analytic and Methodological Review by Christopher J. Ferguson, Rune K. L. Nielsen and Patrick M. Markey

Dysfunction City by Bob McManus

Dysfunction City by Bob McManus

Social Media Is Not Contributing Significantly to Political Polarization, Paper Says by Jonah Engel Bromwich

Social Media Is Not Contributing Significantly to Political Polarization, Paper Says by Jonah Engel Bromwich

Skivvies of the sky from The Economist

Skivvies of the sky from The Economist

A systematic identification and analysis of scientists on Twitter by Qing Ke , Yong-Yeol Ahn, and Cassidy R. Sugimoto

A systematic identification and analysis of scientists on Twitter by Qing Ke , Yong-Yeol Ahn, and Cassidy R. Sugimoto

We Tracked Every Dollar 235 U.S. Households Spent for a Year, and Found Widespread Financial Vulnerability by Jonathan Morduch and Rachel Schneider

We Tracked Every Dollar 235 U.S. Households Spent for a Year, and Found Widespread Financial Vulnerability by Jonathan Morduch and Rachel Schneider

Secrets of the Nolichucky River video

Secrets of the Nolichucky River video

On turning left into darkness by Justin Murphy

On turning left into darkness by Justin Murphy

Unintentional Gerrymandering: Political Geography and Electoral Bias in Legislatures by Jowei Chen and Jonathan Rodden

Unintentional Gerrymandering: Political Geography and Electoral Bias in Legislatures by Jowei Chen and Jonathan Rodden

This Article Won’t Change Your Mind by Julie Beck

This Article Won’t Change Your Mind by Julie Beck

The headwinds/tailwinds asymmetry: An availability bias in assessments of barriers and blessings. by Davidai, S. and Gilovich, T

The headwinds/tailwinds asymmetry: An availability bias in assessments of barriers and blessings. by Davidai, S. and Gilovich, T

Failed attempts to help and harm: Intention versus outcome in preverbal infants’ social evaluations by J. Kiley Hamlin

Failed attempts to help and harm: Intention versus outcome in preverbal infants’ social evaluations by J. Kiley Hamlin

The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews by Jason Dana

The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews by Jason Dana

Gerrymandering didn’t make politics this vicious. But vicious politics will soon make gerrymandering so much worse. by Jeff Guo

Gerrymandering didn’t make politics this vicious. But vicious politics will soon make gerrymandering so much worse. by Jeff Guo

October 1964 Nuclear testing in Mississippi by Alex Q. Arbuckle

October 1964 Nuclear testing in Mississippi by Alex Q. Arbuckle

1860s series of photos illustrating the '5 stages of inebriation' from Va Viper

1860s series of photos illustrating the '5 stages of inebriation' from Va Viper

Keynes’s Art Collection Shows Why Art Investing Is Like the Lottery by Anna Louie Sussman

Keynes’s Art Collection Shows Why Art Investing Is Like the Lottery by Anna Louie Sussman

Perfectly Nice Policies, With Less-Nice Side Effects by Megan McArdle

Perfectly Nice Policies, With Less-Nice Side Effects by Megan McArdle

Computer security is broken from top to bottom from The Economist

Computer security is broken from top to bottom from The Economist

Bee Experts Challenge Environmental Claim That Wild Bees Are Near Extinction by Hank Campbell

Bee Experts Challenge Environmental Claim That Wild Bees Are Near Extinction by Hank Campbell

‘How dare you work on whites’: Professors under fire for research on white mortality by Jeff Guo

‘How dare you work on whites’: Professors under fire for research on white mortality by Jeff Guo

Is Violence Declining Because We’re Evolving More Patience? by Matthew Sedacca

Is Violence Declining Because We’re Evolving More Patience? by Matthew Sedacca

Every story I have read about Trump supporters in the past week by Alexandra Petri

Every story I have read about Trump supporters in the past week by Alexandra Petri

Women’s Attitudes on the Gender Pay Gap May Surprise You by Emily Ekins

Women’s Attitudes on the Gender Pay Gap May Surprise You by Emily Ekins

These high school journalists investigated a new principal’s credentials. Days later, she resigned. by Samantha Schmidt

These high school journalists investigated a new principal’s credentials. Days later, she resigned. by Samantha Schmidt

Why ‘Hillbillies’ Don’t Do Networking by Sandra Navidi

Why ‘Hillbillies’ Don’t Do Networking by Sandra Navidi

What Happened to Atlanta's Carmageddon? by Joe Cortright

What Happened to Atlanta's Carmageddon? by Joe Cortright

Why So Many Americans Are Saying Goodbye to Cities by Derek Thompson

Why So Many Americans Are Saying Goodbye to Cities by Derek Thompson

The Language Hoax by John McWhorter

The Language Hoax by John McWhorter

The Problem With Facts by Tim Harford

The Problem With Facts by Tim Harford

Linguists say most Balkan languages are the same. And nationalists are mad about it by Annalisa Merelli

Linguists say most Balkan languages are the same. And nationalists are mad about it by Annalisa Merelli

Diversity Newspeak: Hispanics are a ‘racial minority,’ Asian Americans are not by David Bernstein

Diversity Newspeak: Hispanics are a ‘racial minority,’ Asian Americans are not by David Bernstein

Paper says columnist tried to remove his articles criticizing Trump to get a State Department job. It backfired. by Samantha Schmidt

Paper says columnist tried to remove his articles criticizing Trump to get a State Department job. It backfired. by Samantha Schmidt

Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks by Jun-Yan Zhu, Taesung Park, Phillip Isola, and Alexei A. Efros

Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks by Jun-Yan Zhu, Taesung Park, Phillip Isola, and Alexei A. Efros

Foreign-Born Population map

Foreign-Born Population map

The Left Hates Mike Pence For Loving His Wife Because They Don’t Really Think Men Can Be Evil by Hans Fiene

The Left Hates Mike Pence For Loving His Wife Because They Don’t Really Think Men Can Be Evil by Hans Fiene

Why Your Extra-Safe Car Costs More to Insure by Christina Rogers and Leslie Scism

Why Your Extra-Safe Car Costs More to Insure by Christina Rogers and Leslie Scism

A theory of jerks by Eric Schwitzgebel

A theory of jerks by Eric Schwitzgebel

The Self-Reported Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors by Eric Schwitzgebel and Joshua Rust

The Self-Reported Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors by Eric Schwitzgebel and Joshua Rust

The Trouble with the View from Above by James C. Scott

The Trouble with the View from Above by James C. Scott

The Dangers of Blaming Trump for Anti-Semitism by Peter Beinart

The Dangers of Blaming Trump for Anti-Semitism by Peter Beinart

Training Your Brain So That You Don’t Need Reading Glasses by Austin Frakt

Training Your Brain So That You Don’t Need Reading Glasses by Austin Frakt

A Timeline of Earth's Average Temperature by xkcd

A Timeline of Earth's Average Temperature by xkcd

Jonathan Haidt Explains Our Contentious Culture interview by Bill Moyers

Jonathan Haidt Explains Our Contentious Culture interview by Bill Moyers

Jonathan Haidt on the Cultural Roots of Campus Rage by Bari Weiss

Jonathan Haidt on the Cultural Roots of Campus Rage by Bari Weiss

The spread of modern manufacturing to the poor periphery by Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson

The spread of modern manufacturing to the poor periphery by Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson

A live stream of Shia LaBeouf chanting was disrupted by Nazi-themed dancing. Then things got weird. by Avi Selk

A live stream of Shia LaBeouf chanting was disrupted by Nazi-themed dancing. Then things got weird. by Avi Selk

Iconic Medal of Honor discovered in Arkansas by Ed Hooper

Iconic Medal of Honor discovered in Arkansas by Ed Hooper

How French "Intellectuals" Ruined The West: Postmodernism and Its Impact Explained by Helen Pluckrose

How French "Intellectuals" Ruined The West: Postmodernism and Its Impact Explained by Helen Pluckrose

Attacks Against African Students Rise in India, Rights Advocates Say by Geeta Anand and Suhasini Raj

Attacks Against African Students Rise in India, Rights Advocates Say by Geeta Anand and Suhasini Raj

Essential Knowledge: Part VIII by The Z Man

Essential Knowledge: Part VIII by The Z Man

This is the next Democratic stronghold to crack like the Rust Belt by Salena Zito

This is the next Democratic stronghold to crack like the Rust Belt by Salena Zito