Chomsky has often suffered fools, knaves, and criminals too lightly. Epstein was one of them. But that doesn’t mean Chomsky ...

After five years jailed under UAPA, activist-scholar Hany Babu speaks on freedom, caste, faith and state power in Modi’s India.

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

I had been invited to Diyarbakir by the Human Rights Association, which does courageous and impressive work under conditions of constant serious threat. The preceding days I spent in Istanbul at the ...

A coalition of business groups is circulating an initiative petition to completely repeal the gross receipts tax that the ...

Libertarian socialism is a political tradition that argues real freedom requires both personal liberty and democratic control over the economic institutions that shape our lives. Think of it ...

I think his ideas and arguments are still worth grappling with as one tries to make sense of this ever stranger world.

If you are fluent in any language other than English, you have probably noticed that some things are impossible to translate ...

By Mark PostIf you are fluent in any language other than English, you have probably noticed that some things are impossible to translate exactly.A Japanese designer marvelling at an object’s shibui (a ...

Portuguese speakers may struggle to convey their saudade, a mixture of yearning, wistfulness and melancholy. Speakers of Welsh will have an even harder time translating their hiraeth, which can carry ...

The Left icon overlooked sexual violence, much like India’s literary and cultural progressives have embraced a man whose rape ...

“Based on their training data, they just model the probability that a given token, or word, will follow a set of tokens that ...