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David Deutsch, who proposed an as yet unbuildable machine to test existence of parallel universes, shares prize with three others

Influential American philosopher whose 1980 book Naming and Necessity challenged ideas about the identity of mind and brain

Eight of the nine Supreme Court justices went to Harvard or Yale law schools. So did nearly a fifth of the federal judiciary. This rankles some politicians, watchdog groups and others who see it as an outrageous manifestation of elitism that needs to be changed, given how much power this…

Politicians educated at some of the US’s most elite universities are spreading conspiracy theories that they surely know are untrue. What happened to ‘service and stewardship’?

[For the last month, I've been serializing my 2003 Harvard Law Review article, The Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope, and I'm finishing it up this week.] Sandra Starr, vice chairwoman of the Princeton Regional Health Commission …, said there is no "slippery slope" toward a total ban on smoking in…

The ultimate predator of predators was a massive 50-foot-long shark that was so powerful it even ate predators that ate other predators.

My seminar picks for 2022 (and every year since 2005)

His 2000 thesis on civil-rights-era Atlanta lifts passages from other people's work.

Igor Shesterkin stood on his head again.