Science, like baseball, has a lot of unwritten rules. Every baseball player knows that you don’t flip your bat after hitting a home run, you never steal a base when you have a big lead, and you cover ...

Reading of the president-elect’s cabinet nominees brings to mind words by Hannah Arendt: "Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sym-pathies, with ...

Last Thursday Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman issued a warning in the New York Times. “The pandemic will eventually end,” he wrote, “but democracy, once lost, may never come back. And we’re much ...