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I don’t want to talk about nutty school boards run amok, though it makes for good social-media outrage. But I do want to talk about guilt. In short, why in the world would anyone feel guilt, of all things, learning about anything? American history? Michelangelo’s David? Really…
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I’m “too excited” — a concept that appears in this piece — to share this exploration of microchips, democracy, and the face of God. What I saw in…
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Even Jia Tolentino, with her seemingly infinite capacity for nuance and tact, can’t get it right. Ozempic is evidently a Fermat’s theorem of social…
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You could be forgiven for thinking some of this year’s Academy Award best picture nominees were shot in black and white. They were not. But several of…
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This is the final installment in a series revisiting some of the writing I’ve done on AI, free to all who subscribe. Thank you for your continued…
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IF NUCLEAR FISSION is associated with catastrophe, nuclear fusion is associated with delay and fraud. The joke about fusion, the synthesis of lab-grown…
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This is Day 4 of my revisiting some of the writing I’ve done on AI, free to all who subscribe. Thank you for your continued support. The below piece…
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On Saturday night, MSNBC aired one of its near-daily segments about female and LGBTQ teenagers and their shattered mental health. Everyone seems to…
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