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Timeless stories from our 174-year archive handpicked to speak to the news of the day.
How politics destroyed contemporary art
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On minor characters and human possibility
Liberal democracy’s last stand against Big Tech
Before and after artificial intelligence
Can AI think creatively? Can we?
Among the antinatalists
Creation in Genesis
On seeing without being seen
Anthem for a forgotten cohort
COVID-19 and the new science wars
The Protestant ethic and the spirit of wokeness
On the dangers of American hubris
What is the sound of quiet quitting?
Michael H. Parkinson reappears on the No. 56 streetcar
Trumpism and the American philosophical tradition
The sense of an ending
The trials of an almost candidate
Why liberals should give up on the judiciary
The religious origins of American liberalism
What comes after the American Century?
Will COVID controls keep controlling us?
Reacquainting ourselves with the night
Breaking free without breaking up
Embracing habit in an automated world
How everything became trauma
Notes on humiliation
What the American Academy of Arts and Letters taught me about death
On stupidity and transcendence
How Hannah Arendt’s fans misread the post-truth presidency
1619, 1776, and the politics of the past
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