The New Yorker:

“Harvard and Yale are boosting their engineering programs because of increased demand and competition from China, where more engineering degrees are awarded each year than in the U.S.” Boy, you hear the math and science ‘deficit’ is both fiction and reality in the media — now the Ivy League is taking it seriously.  Pretty much pegs it in ‘deficit’, there.  Should the effort be named, “No country left behind”?  ... more

Most important, “The Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation, which excludes food and fuel costs, slowed in April , today’s Commerce report showed. The gauge rose 0.1 percent, compared with a 0.2 percent increase the previous month.” Which means the Fed likely won’t touch rates next month. ... more

Ronald Reagan’s World. Always temper historical revisionism with what the President’s staff wrote in their memoirs. ... more

Do antiquities belong to their home country, or to the world? I ponder the question: if antiquities are to be preserved, in whose hands will they survive best ... to be shared publicly in perpetuity? ... more