The cosmic traveller flying at 61km/s and steaming with gaseous cyanide is only the third object we’ve detected in our solar system that came from another star. And one Harvard professor believes it may be an alien spacecraft with malicious intent.

Those who predict that superintelligence will destroy humanity serve the same interests as those who believe that it will solve all of our problems.

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as …

Oh Christgau! Up yours!

Anna Funder

Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture

The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division