With the burial of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, contemporary political discourse will inevitably focus on his geopolitical maneuvering, Iran’s nuclear trajectory, and prolonged confrontation with Western powers. However, an analysis restricted to statecraft overlooks the defining characteristic of his tenure: the systematic institutionalization of state-sanctioned violence. Khamenei’s legacy is fundamentally defined by the creation of an […]

It’s now readily demonstrable that Anthropic’s political advocacy and advertising have caused substantial harm to America’s position in the global AI race. There has long been an understanding that, for America to lead the world in this entirely new domain, a critical imperative is to keep the government from suffocating this technology with regulations before […]

Justice Elena Kagan should recuse herself from Suncor Energy v. Boulder County. Not because a lower court told her to. Not because an ethics board ruled against her. Because the oldest test in the profession says so: would a reasonable, informed observer question her impartiality? Here, the answer isn’t close. I spend a good part […]

The American Anthropological Association is outraged. A little known but illuminating report on the state of scholarship in the humanities and humanistic social sciences, commissioned by the chancellors of Vanderbilt University and Washington University in St. Louis, warns that “every field” the authors studied shows “a deterioration in scholarly standards fueled by the substitution of […]