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Brian Eno Knows “What Art Does”
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John Singer Sargent’s Scandalous “Madame X”
[ad_1] Summer is a season ripe for scandal; people tend to be overheated and understimulated, looking to mist their crisping minds with idle gossip. Minor controversies can boil over, given...
Is “The Phoenician Scheme” Wes Anderson’s Most Emotional Film?
[ad_1] Wes Anderson’s new film, “The Phoenician Scheme,” is a funny-ha-ha comedy, but there’s nothing funny about its story, which involves a wealthy industrialist’s attempts to realize a grandiose infrastructure...
Oval Office Ambush
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Peter Godfrey-Smith on Alien Intelligences in Our Midst
[ad_1] In the two-thousands, the philosopher of science Peter Godfrey-Smith began snorkelling off the coast of his native Sydney, where he became captivated by giant cuttlefish. The experience spurred him...
The Criminalization of Venezuelan Street Culture
[ad_1] On the morning of April 23, 2024, Claudio David Balcane González, a twenty-six-year-old musician from the state of Aragua, in Venezuela, arrived at the Texas border. In the previous...
Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral
[ad_1] The internet—it seemed like such a good idea at the time. Under conditions of informational poverty, our ancestors had no choice but to operate on a need-to-know basis. The...
Two Paths for A.I.
[ad_1] Last spring, Daniel Kokotajlo, an A.I.-safety researcher working at OpenAI, quit his job in protest. He’d become convinced that the company wasn’t prepared for the future of its own...
Returning to the Scene of My Brutal Rape
[ad_1] A woman is running. In the path, a man appears as if from nowhere. He is masked and he holds a knife. What are her choices? On one side...
William F. Buckley, Jr., and the Invention of American Conservatism
[ad_1] National Review embraced Goldwater. Bozell ghostwrote his campaign book, “The Conscience of a Conservative,” a hit with college students. But Goldwater was crushed in the general election, winning just...
