Margins
Shorter dispatches, marginalia, and notes on events, books, and ideas.
The Budget Held and the Scientists Left
US federal research spending held at about $200 billion this year while the NIH, NSF, Energy Department and Pentagon labs lost scientists. The piece explains why the budget figure hides the loss.
Nobody Writes Alone
Magazine bans on AI writing rest on a myth of the solitary author. This essay sets that myth against Lish and Carver, Pound and Eliot, Churchill’s dictation and digital photography.