Ever since a New York Times newsroom revolt over a controversial op-ed, American media—if not American society at large—has been engaged in another round of debate about the limits of…

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On December 20, 2014, a twenty-eight-year-old man named Ismaaiyl Brinsley walked up to a parked patrol car in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, pulled out a semiautomatic handgun, and fired…

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From Kant’s Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write, a collection of essays, which will be published next month by W. W. Norton. We live in an era…

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From The Book of Atlantis Black, which was published last month by Tin House Books. 1. Once, when my older sister Nancy was twelve, she told me she’d decided to…

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From surveillance measures taken by governments and institutions around the world in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Connected patient case numbers with location data Deployed drones to scold pedestrians…

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From a lawsuit filed in June by the estate of Arthur Conan Doyle alleging that an upcoming Netflix film about Enola Holmes, the younger sister of Sherlock Holmes, depicts Sherlock…

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From For Now, which will be published this month by Yale University Press as part of the Why I Write series. A version of the essay was delivered at Yale…

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From Self-Portrait with Russian Piano, a novel, which will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Translated from the German. You ask me whether I still keep up…

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From sign-offs in the correspondence of the philosopher collected in Letters and Other Texts, which was published in July by Semiotext(e). Wishes, wishes, wishes Friendship and wishes Thinking of your…

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From first names given to babies born around the world during the early months of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Corona Corona Kumar Corona Kumari Covid Covid Marie Covid Rose Coviduvidapdap…

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From CV Dazzle, a project by Adam Harvey that demonstrates how makeup, hair styling, and accessories can be used to foil facial recognition technology. Harvey ran the below looks through…

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From the headlines of advice columns published in the New York Times since the onset of the novel coronavirus pandemic. If You’ve Got Lemons, Make Limoncello How to Raise a…

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From an interview of Larry Kudlow, the director of the National Economic Council, by Sara Eisen, the cohost of Closing Bell on CNBC, conducted in June. sara eisen: Larry, I…

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From Things to Do in Hell, a poetry collection, which will be published next month by Coffee House Press. The airplane inside us was running out of pretzels We took…

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From FCC complaints filed between 2016 and 2017 that allege inappropriate behavior by CNN host Don Lemon. The documents were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request and published…

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Against the erosion of academic freedom by identity politics

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Revolver shots at three in the morning. As I stuck my head out the window, lights flared up and down the darkened block. More heads craned from open windows. Below…

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The exhibit had been up for three weeks when the trouble started. As soon as Cliff arrived at the gallery that afternoon, Georgina got up from the stool where they…

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Elegy IV (detail), from the series Arctic Elegy, by DM Witman © The artist. Courtesy Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, New York “Don’t say that he’s hypocritical / Say rather that he’s apolitical,” Tom…

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The corrupt business of deportation

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On the Jesus trilogy

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“Ernie and Leela,” and “Ernie Under My Desk,” photographs by Tony Mendoza from his book Ernie: A Photographer’s Memoir, published by Chronicle Books. Courtesy the artist and Lee Marks Fine…

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Robinson Jeffers and the hope of human extinction

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What privacy looks like on Google Street View

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Nursing homes, the coronavirus, and the bottom line

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How Google, Amazon, and Facebook control our lives

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