Articles of Note

Italian humanists wrote with a mishmash of dots, dashes, swoops, and curlicues. Their most successful experiment in punctuation? The semicolon... more »

New Books

Moral panics have traditionally been an indulgence of the right. Now they're associated with the woke left. What happened?... more »

Essays & Opinions

Science has a data problem — its reliance on “statistical significance” has thrown it into disarray. An alternative standard beckons... more »