Culture
Why Do Mind-Altering Drugs Make People Feel Better?
When Olson was at Stanford, he learned from a mentor who had honed a new method for developing drugs: function-oriented synthesis. Within…
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Culture
“Project Hail Mary”: In Space, No One Should Hear Your Glib Jokes
Enter Eva Stratt (Sandra Hüller), a government official with a barbed half smile and a will of iron, who drags Grace back to the world of…
News
The Senate Housing Bill Mess
By preventing large investors from building homes, a bipartisan housing bill will do more to limit new construction than to spur…
Culture
Two Playwrights Tackle Father Figures
Still, the most remarkable performance at the Cherry Lane is by Peter Friedman, who plays the kind of father you rarely see in art: a good…
Business
Anduril set to acquire Orange County space surveillance company
Southern California defense tech darling Anduril Industries has struck a deal to buy Orange County space surveillance firm ExoAnalytic…
News
War in the Age of the Online “Information Bomb”
On TikTok, the war against Iran began with a series of videos from influencer types in Dubai, Doha, and elsewhere in the Middle East. They…
News
Trump Prepares His Iran Off-Ramp
The time to prepare the public for the sacrifices of warfare is before launching a war, not after you’ve started shooting. Source link
News
Talarico the Texas Trickster
He is not, in fact, a moderate, unless ‘moderate’ is now a synonym for ‘white man.’ Source link
Culture
The Next Game from the Creator of Wordle Is Here
Wardle had tried cryptic crosswords when he was younger, but found them to be impenetrable. “I didn’t know how to begin,” he told me. The…
News
James Talarico’s Convenient Faith
When the Texas candidate cites his Christianity, it’s often in service of a trendy progressive position. Source link
Culture
Life in Hitler’s Capital
According to Buruma’s sources, life in 1939 proceeded much as before for most Berliners, albeit with less illumination (the street lights…
Culture
How God Got So Great
What monotheism means is surprisingly hard to pin down, but there’s a reason it swept the world. Source link
News
A Wintry Utopia in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom
Vermont has long been a haven for idealists and iconoclasts, from the Putney Perfectionists of the nineteenth century to Depression-era…
Culture
The Oscars: Who Will Win and Who Should Win
Will win: “One Battle After Another” Should win: “One Battle After Another” Should’ve been nominated: “Sirāt” Best Director Paul Thomas…
Culture
The Perverse, Tender Worlds of Paul Thomas Anderson
Early on, there are slow-moving but tense confrontations between Dodd and Freddie in which Hoffman and Phoenix appear to be competing over…
News
California Progressives Insist on Quota Politics
Even in deep-blue territory, voters might decide that they have had enough. Source link
Culture
A Nineteenth-Century Countess’s Sultry Selfies
Virginia Oldoini helped conceptualize and starred in more than four hundred portraits so experimental and expressive that they have drawn…
News
Lessons for Subduing the Oldest Hatred
Forget grievance. To counteract bigotry takes a particular resolve. Source link
Lifestyle
The Most Beautiful Freezer in the World
Arrival was a shock. Inside the station, I unzipped my engorged duffel, retrieving my precious scale and cookie cutters. I filled my…