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The War on Guilt
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 Saw the Face of God in a Semiconductor Factory
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…
Virginia Heffernan
Mar 21
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Fat people don’t need medical care for who they are
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…
Virginia Heffernan
Mar 20
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Oscars so gray
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…
Virginia Heffernan
Mar 11
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The Racist Tesla Bot
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…
Virginia Heffernan
Mar 7
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It’s Time to Fall in Love With Nuclear Fusion—Again
IF NUCLEAR FISSION is associated with catastrophe, nuclear fusion is associated with delay and fraud. The joke about fusion, the synthesis of lab-grown…
Virginia Heffernan
Mar 3
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'Robots are good at very simple things like cleaning the floor'
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…
Virginia Heffernan
Mar 2
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Stop Talking About Sad Girls and Sad Gays
On Saturday night, MSNBC aired one of its near-daily segments about female and LGBTQ teenagers and their shattered mental health. Everyone seems to…
Virginia Heffernan
Feb 28
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