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Harvard is going to try to borrow more money, issuing $675 million in tax-exempt bonds with the help of the state of Massachusetts, according to a preliminary official statement dated March 27, 2026. The post Harvard To Borrow Another $675 Million as Applications Plunge appeared first on .

On November 2, 1963, South Vietnamese military officers murdered their president of nine years, Ngo Dinh Diem, and took control of the nation's government. The American hand was invisible at the time, but regime change came to fruition only because of active encouragement by the U.S. ambassador, who believed that a coup would improve South Vietnam's war effort. In the months that followed, however, South Vietnam experienced a succession of coups and countercoups, whose debilitating effects drew the United States further into the Vietnam war. As the crisis intensified, South Vietnamese and American participants raged against one another about the merits and consequences of deposing Diem. Although most of those individuals are no longer with us, the debate and some of its ardor have survived. The post Coups and Consequences appeared first on .

I know nothing about primate anthropology, but I did know a primate anthropologist. She took me into the rainforests of southern Uganda, where we spent several afternoons lurking in the shrubbery and watching a troop of chimpanzees. When we got too close to the mothers and babies, the males chimped out. They got up on their hind legs, bared their teeth, howled like extras from Tarzan, and started bounding toward us. To avoid a savaging, we mimicked subordinate chimpanzee behavior. This requires no scientific expertise, though experience of male pattern baldness may help. You look down in shame and repeatedly stroke your pate from back to front as though trying to glue down the strands of a combover in a high wind. If that doesn’t work, run your other hand over your eyes and nose as though wiping that smirk off your simian face before you make one of the alphas come down there and do it for you. The post You’re Not a Monkey’s Uncle appeared first on .

George Orwell, in his immortal 1946 essay "The Prevention of Literature," delineates a distinction between two types of attackers of intellectual freedom, both real but one in a sense more real than the other. "On the one side," he writes, "are its theoretical enemies, the apologists of totalitarianism, and on the other its immediate, practical enemies, monopoly and bureaucracy." This distinction is at least as useful in the age of Trump and social media. The post Tyranny Through Technology appeared first on .