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Flavored Vapes Can Save Lives
High schoolers have turned away from vaping and smoking, so obsessing over flavored e-cigarettes is a waste of time.
March 13, 2026
Joe Nocera
Joan Didion Knew What Hollywood Would Become
Before the Oscars this weekend, read ‘Play It as It Lays.’
March 12, 2026
Shilo Brooks
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Why Grad Students at Columbia May Go on Strike
‘If you look at what the union is doing now, you can see there’s no sane people left,’ says one student about its political fixations.
March 9, 2026
Jonas Du
He Wanted to Teach Western Civilization. So He Quit Harvard.
Historian James Hankins argues that understanding the history of the Western tradition is the only way to preserve civilization.
March 9, 2026
Coleman Hughes
1HR 19M
The NYC Public Defender Who Sends Books to Prisoners
And frontier justice in Charles Portis’s ‘True Grit’
March 5, 2026
Shilo Brooks
54M
Meet the Internet’s New Iran Expert—Who Thinks the Illuminati Run the World
Xueqin Jiang, a researcher at Harvard, believes that a coalition of Freemasons, Jesuits, and members of a defunct Jewish cult are conspiring to rule the…
March 4, 2026
River Page
EXCLUSIVE: The First Antisemitism Lawsuit Against a U.S. State
The filing claims Jewish children across California are bullied by peers, targeted by teachers, and taught curricula that portrays them as…
February 26, 2026
Maya Sulkin
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Frannie Block
‘The Brothers Karamazov’ Helped Inspire the Catholic App Hallow
And why Dostoevsky’s classic is the perfect book for Lent.
February 26, 2026
Shilo Brooks
53M
Why Hazing Makes Better Men
Last week, a series of police body-camera videos from a fraternity basement at the University of Iowa went viral. But the internet got it all wrong.
February 23, 2026
Catherine Morrissette
Homeschooling Isn’t for Everyone
Keeping kids out of school is risky—I know, because I did it.
February 23, 2026
Larissa Phillips
‘Lolita,’ Jeffrey Epstein, and the Real Meaning of a Challenging Classic
How a novel about a pedophile-rapist came to occupy such a prominent place in American life.
February 19, 2026
Shilo Brooks
47M
I’m a Harvard Student. It’s Too Easy to Get an A.
Most of my classmates arrive here with genuine ambition. We are then dropped into a grading system that quietly trains us to treat intellectual life…
February 13, 2026
Isaac Mansell
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