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What If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?
[ad_1] For this week’s Open Questions column, Cal Newport is filling in for Joshua Rothman.Much of the euphoria and dread swirling around today’s artificial-intelligence technologies can be traced back to...
Lorenzo Mattotti’s “Summer Rays”
[ad_1] For the cover of the August 18, 2025, issue, the artist Lorenzo Mattotti portrays the symphony of sight, sound, smell, and touch which comes to life when you walk...
The One Race That Eric Adams Is Winning
[ad_1] By all appearances, the New York City mayoral race has narrowed to two viable contenders: Zohran Mamdani, a thirty-three-year-old democratic socialist, and the disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo, who...
Ethel Cain’s Anti-Pop Stardom
[ad_1] Midway through the music video for “American Teenager,” a feel-good pop song that has been streamed more than a hundred million times, the camera cuts, for an instant, to...
What It’s Like to Brainstorm with a Bot
[ad_1] Contrary to what many of my friends believe, good academics are always working—at least in the sense that when we’re stuck on a problem, which is most of the...
Richard Brody’s Summertime Movie Picks
[ad_1] The recent heat wave may be only a memory—but enshrining memories is what movies do, and many of them rely on harsh summer climates as crucial elements of drama....
Hollywood’s Conservative Pivot
[ad_1] “King of the Hill,” the animated sitcom that first ran for thirteen Americana-powered seasons between 1997 and 2010, had a deceptively simple premise. The family at its heart collectively...
The Power of Silence: My Greatest Career Lesson
[ad_1] Here’s advice I learned early in my career that seemed counterintuitive at first but proved to be invaluable. When I joined a room full of talented, funny professionals, I...
“Thirty-Three,” by D. S. Waldman
[ad_1] Could be half my life, I said, could be all of it. Could be a third, Gabby said. [ad_2] Source link
The Piercing Immigrant Drama of “Souleymane’s Story”
[ad_1] The title of the new film from the French director and screenwriter Boris Lojkine, “Souleymane’s Story,” has a few entwined meanings. In the broadest sense, it describes the movie...
