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AI robots can help us explore Mars, perform surgeries, and deliver aid to disaster zones. So is our robot-assisted future bright ..read more
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In praise of walking. “At three miles an hour, the world is a continuum. … There are no beginnings or endings, only continuity ..read more
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Is Glenn Loury’s new memoir a brave act of self-reckoning or a reckless act of self-sabotage ..read more
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Between the emergence of humans and the invention of writing is blank space. To fill it, we have a half-cocked concept: prehistory ..read more
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“There’s an invigorating novelty in seeing a master try something new without immediately becoming virtuosic ..read more
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“That is right,” Joseph Priestley said when he completed editing the manuscript. “I have now done.” Minutes later, he was dead ..read more
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A decade before the Sokal hoax, critical theory was lampooned in a German essay: “Lacancan und Derridada ..read more
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Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities, a compelling account of nationalism’s origins, speaks little to its contemporary re-emergence ..read more
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Norman Podhoretz's masculinity problem — and ours. Why were the New York Intellectuals so preoccupied with manliness? ..read more
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Most newspaper columnists sink into a comfortable bath of unoriginal hackery. Others have a fountain of ideas, but all of their ideas are bad ..read more