The dumbing down of humanity, unfortunately, is only just beginning. Unless you’ve been blissfully off the grid for the last ...

Storytelling is now a top career skill. Students who learn to explain their work and impact early gain a major advantage in ...

For humanities departments to continue to matter, they must challenge the modern world rather than accommodate it.

Most humans like games. But what are games, exactly? Not in a philosophical sense, but in the sense of “what exactly are their worky bits, so we know how to make them?” [Raph Koster] ...

Across American campuses, the blue exam booklet is suddenly back in fashion. Faced with a surge of AI-assisted cheating, ...

How do you cope with a blank page? NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to Elizabeth McCracken about her new book, "A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction." ...

First, here are four new stories from The Atlantic’s Books section: A different kind of materialism The return of MAGA’s ...

Whenever he got stuck, I answered his questions, drawing either on my own programming knowledge or on A.I. He finished a rudimentary version of the game in about an hour. In the following weeks, with ...

A new course in the College is allowing first-years to put that idea into practice as part of “Inquiry, Conversation, ...

This review is part of a preview of the winter 2026 issue of Academe. The issue will be released in full in February.

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Viewed this way, a definition is a decision mechanism. It distinguishes some elements of the universe from the others. Hence ...