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Essay

Your Face Tomorrow

by Michael W. Clune,

The puzzle of AI facial recognition

The Geological Sublime

by Lewis Hyde,

Butterflies, deep time, and climate change

Demanding Pleasures

by Lydia Davis,

On the art of observation

The Reenchanted World

by Karl Ove Knausgaard,Translated by Olivia Lasky, Damion Searls,

On finding mystery in the digital age

Going Soft

by Lily Scherlis,

Future-proofing the American worker

Voices from the Dead Letter Office

by Cynthia Ozick,

On the epistolary life

The Painted Protest

by Dean Kissick,

How politics destroyed contemporary art

The Seventy Percent

by Yiyun Li,

On minor characters and human possibility

The Antitrust Revolution

by Barry C. Lynn,

Liberal democracy’s last stand against Big Tech

The Gods of Logic

by Benjamín Labatut,

Before and after artificial intelligence

Metal Machine Music

by Laurent Dubreuil,

Can AI think creatively? Can we?

The Case Against Children

by Elizabeth Barber,

Among the antinatalists

And It Was So

by Marilynne Robinson,

Creation in Genesis

The Spy

by Rachel Cusk,

On seeing without being seen

My Generation

by Justin E. H. Smith,

Anthem for a forgotten cohort

Doctor’s Orders

by Jason Blakely,

COVID-19 and the new science wars

Doing the Work

by Ian Buruma,

The Protestant ethic and the spirit of wokeness

Why Are We in Ukraine?

by Benjamin Schwarz, Christopher Layne,

On the dangers of American hubris

The Age of the Crisis of Work

by Erik Baker,

What is the sound of quiet quitting?

The Melancholy Universe

by László F. Földényi,Translated by John Batki,

Michael H. Parkinson reappears on the No. 56 streetcar

Truth Takes a Vacation

by Mark Edmundson,

Trumpism and the American philosophical tradition

Apocalypse Nowish

by Michael Robbins,

The sense of an ending

In the Running

by Sarah Smarsh,

The trials of an almost candidate

Courting Disaster

by Ian MacDougall,

Why liberals should give up on the judiciary

One Manner of Law

by Marilynne Robinson,

The religious origins of American liberalism

Empire Burlesque

by Daniel Bessner,

What comes after the American Century?

Permanent Pandemic

by Justin E. H. Smith,

Will COVID controls keep controlling us?

In the Land of Living Skies

by Suzannah Showler,

Reacquainting ourselves with the night

The Eros Monster

by Agnes Callard,

Breaking free without breaking up

Routine Maintenance

by Meghan O’Gieblyn,

Embracing habit in an automated world

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