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What Isaac Asimov Reveals About Living with A.I.
[ad_1] For this week’s Open Questions column, Cal Newport is filling in for Joshua Rothman.In the spring of 1940, Isaac Asimov, who had just turned twenty, published a short story...
How the Broadway Musical “Maybe Happy Ending” Creates Visual Magic
[ad_1] The scenic designer Dane Laffrey on the inspiration he found while travelling in Tokyo and the ideas that led to the groundbreaking set design of the Broadway musical, which...
Why Prior Authorization Is Causing Headaches and How to Solve It
[ad_1] In healthcare, insurance companies use prior authorization (PA) to determine whether a prescribed treatment, medication, or procedure is medically necessary before they approve coverage. Although intended to control costs...
What We Get Wrong About Violent Crime
[ad_1] Late on a Sunday night in June of 2023, a woman named Carlishia Hood and her fourteen-year-old son, an honor student, pulled into Maxwell Street Express, a fast-food joint...
David Hockney’s “Going Up Garrowby Hill”
[ad_1] There are many ways to celebrate spring, but few contemporary artists have devoted more attention to the topic than David Hockney. The cover of the June 9, 2025, issue...
Jarvis Cocker Is Out of the Rain
[ad_1] This month, the beloved British pop band Pulp will release “More,” its first new album in twenty-four years. Jarvis Cocker, the band’s founder, lyricist, and front man, has engaged...
Rashid Johnson’s Own “Poem for Deep Thinkers”
[ad_1] It’s an epic display of small ideas. But what gives the exhibition its coherence is Johnson’s consistent—if tonally varied—engagement with literature. “A Poem for Deep Thinkers” is named after...
The First-time Homebuyer’s Guide to a Smooth Mortgage Process
[ad_1] Buying your first home is an exciting milestone, but it can also be overwhelming with all the decisions to make and steps to follow. Among the most crucial is...
The Myth of the Young Entrepreneur: Why Experience Matters
[ad_1] We’ve all heard the romanticized tales of teenage dropouts who build tech empires from their garages and become billionaires before they’re old enough to rent a car. This narrative...
Jack Whitten Went Hard in the Paint
[ad_1] He poured the paint in layers and combed through it with an Afro pick. Or he froze and shattered it, reassembling the shards into new wholes. Like an alchemist,...
