Environment Do Tech Companies Really Support Free Speech? Only when it doesn't endanger their ability to make a profit. Susie Cagle
Social Justice What Is the Point of Academic Books? Ultimately, they're meant to disseminate knowledge. But their narrow appeal makes them expensive to produce and harder to sell. Noah Berlatsky
News in Brief What Are the Benefits of Government-Funded Research? Congress wants to know. Michael White
Economics The Beautiful Tyranny of the Restoration Hardware Catalog It's heavy, it's not good for the environment, it's too expensive for all but a select few—and yet, every year, the 17-pound catalog arrives again. Casey N. Cep
Economics The Dangerous Mathematical Con of Hedge Funds and Financial Advisers Using too many trials to design investment algorithms renders them statistically useless and potentially devastating. Ryan Jacobs