The Independent Scholar

The Independent Scholar - May 29, 2026


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In this week's issue:

  • A book about AI's threat to truth — caught by the NYT using AI-hallucinated quotes, with no fact-checker involved at any stage
  • A federal court letting a public university's shutdown of student magazines stand — and what that means for institutional control of campus publishing
  • The historian who changed how America thinks about marriage never finished a PhD — Steven Mintz makes a case for what that actually means
  • Publishers quietly swapping Doja Cat and TikTok into 2006 YA novels: the next front after sensitivity editing
  • Jessica Riskin's rehabilitation of Lamarck, surfacing through the Hinternet — suppressed for political and theological reasons, now partly vindicated by epigenetics
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    The Independent ScholarBy Julia Murphy