Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel posits that independence from public opinion is essential for achieving greatness. Dependence ...

What began as a one-room basement office in 1869 grew into one of the world's most powerful investment banks. Here's how it happened.

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From Turner to Melville, history reveals a pattern: the future rarely looks like progress at first—it looks like failure.

First phase to train 1,000 faculty members and teachers on integrating Agentic AI into education by the end of 2026 ...

As part of our July Fourth special broadcast, we continue our extended interview with Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI. The book documents the rise of ...

A simple sketch by engineer Robert Metcalfe in 1970, born from a need to untangle office wires, laid the foundation for ...

Landy on Rahel Jaeggi, Progress and Regression. A critical theorist reformulates the concept of progress as social-reflexive problem-solving.

Qualifications earned in early adulthood can no longer be expected to remain sufficient throughout a forty or fifty-year ...

As America celebrates its 250th birthday, we look at technological revolutions that have shaped the country—and the AI ...

Many historians have recently seen it as a tame, even disappointing affair. But in the Trump era, the old question of its ...

Automation might be to blame for Springer Nature’s retraction of two papers that a Nobel Prize winner published more than a ...