At some point over the past 15 years, kids stopped reading. Or at least their teachers stopped asking them to read the way they once did. We live in the age of the reel, the story, the sample, the ...

On a recent snowbound day I took up “Conquistadores,” Fernando Cervantes’s history of the European arrival in the New World, and found myself meditating on the period in the early 1500s when the ...

Mr. Shirky, a vice provost at New York University, has been helping faculty members and students adapt to digital tools since 2015. Back in 2023, when ChatGPT was still new, a professor friend had a ...

Unruly Republic: With artificial intelligence disaster looming, we’re told to empower experts, raise taxes! Could we be heading into another version of climate alarmism? Photo: Noah Berger/AP/Vincent ...

Every year, I climb to the top of Everest. It’s no big deal. I take it one step at a time, 80,000 steps per year. By the time Dec. 31 arrives, I calculated, I have ascended at least seven vertical ...

Scientists have found a key brain network that’s disrupted by Parkinson’s disease, according to a study published today in Nature. The results change doctors’ understanding of what causes Parkinson’s ...

After she dropped to her knees outside her home in Midlothian, Virginia, suffocating, after she was lifted into the ambulance and told herself, “I can’t die this way,” and after emergency workers at ...

Let’s get this out of the way: He is embarrassingly handsome, his hair seasoned with silver, at ease with his own eminence as he delivers his final State of the State address. “In Washington, the ...