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Harvard and Yale Discover (Gasp!) the Importance of Viewpoint Diversity
But endowed chairs for conservative scholars won’t fix the problem. Source link
“The Audacity” Is a Brutal Silicon Valley Satire with an Agenda
Midway through my watch of the new tech-satire series “The Audacity,” I received an e-mail from Google that I had received many times…
Dean’s Is Not Your Average Pub
The stargazy pie at Dean’s—a new British-ish, pub-ish restaurant on the edge of SoHo—is, in a word, freaky. The head of a fish, cooked and…
How Garry Trudeau and William F. Buckley Bridged Partisan Divides
The two Yalies found common ground despite their generational and political differences. Source link
The Generation That Will Always Be Too Young to Smoke
Like almost every smoker, I started when I was a child. Children aren’t supposed to smoke; it’s allegedly a part of the adult world,…
Biking Outside the Lines in New York City
Thirty-nine years ago this summer, Ed Koch, the mayor of New York City, held a press conference on the steps of City Hall, where he…
Can Art Teach, and Should It Try?
Calling something “didactic” has become grounds for immediate dismissal. But do the merits of works with an educational bent—from “The…
The Trump–Xi Summit
It would be extremely dangerous to think that such meetings might change the way that China views the U.S. or, for that matter, the world.…
These Kennedy Whelps Just Keep Coming Back
Jack Schlossberg is apparently every bit as off-puttingly manic and erratic in real life as he is in his many self-posted video…
Rostam Batmanglij Wanders to the Edges of American Sound
Other songs on “American Stories” are more personal. “Like a Spark” opens with a blues riff played on a nylon-string guitar, offset by the…
Isaiah Rashad’s Confessions
Rashad seemed somewhat out of step with the hip-hop mainstream when he first surfaced, and the gap has only grown in the years since then.…
The Surrealist Blues Poet aja monet’s Jazzy New Album
Electronic The English singer, producer, and d.j. Nia Archives stands at the forefront of the modern U.K. rave scene, working primarily in…
Gamers, developers protest Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund's bid to acquire Electronic Arts
As Electronic Arts moves closer to closing a sale of the gaming company to Saudi Arabian investors, it’s facing backlash from a group of…
Time for the Times to Retract the Israeli-Rape Column
The newspaper’s defense of Nicholas Kristof’s column is indefensible. Source link
LinkedIn, Cisco and Amazon are the latest tech companies laying off more workers
Job cuts are hammering the tech industry as companies ramp up investments in artificial intelligence. This week, San José-based tech…
Local Media Is Thriving in E-mail Newsletters
When I first moved to Brooklyn, in 2010, a small, stapled, glossy print product became my guide to my new neighborhood of Bushwick and…
The Hollow Trickery of “The Wizard of the Kremlin”
Despite such philosophizing, “The Wizard of the Kremlin” can only superficially be called a movie of ideas; it’s a movie of strategies…
Anti-Populist Censorship Reigns in Europe
If Europe doesn’t ease up, it will have to learn the hard way that repression has its limits. Source link
Demi Moore says Hollywood has to ‘find ways’ to work with AI, not fight it
Demi Moore is weighing into the debate over Hollywood should respond to the growing influence of AI, saying performers need to embrace the…
Demonizing Billionaires
The Week of May 11, 2026: Billionaires and the presumption of guilt, energy, tariffs, state capitalism, and much more. Source link
Why 'House of David' director thinks AI can save Hollywood jobs
In 1926, director Cecil B. DeMille hired hundreds of workers to build a set of Jerusalem inside the DeMille Studios in Culver City for the…
Buddy Bradley’s Legacy of Dance
The case that Ashton and Bradley heavily influenced each other is stronger, if also strained. They collaborated on the stereotype-sodden…