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Can A.I. Find Cures for Untreatable Diseases—Using Drugs We Already Have?
When David Fajgenbaum was a twenty-five-year-old medical student, at the University of Pennsylvania, he started to feel so tired that he…
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The Met’s Luminous New Rockefeller Wing Still Casts Some Shadows
It may be the most impressive of the recently modernized colonial collections, far surpassing Berlin’s much criticized Humboldt Forum. One…
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Is Technology Really Ruining Teens’ Lives?
In early 2021, the journalist Matt Richtel spoke to a father who was a few weeks into a nightmare. Tatnai Burnett was a doctor, his wife…
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William F. Buckley, Jr., and the Invention of American Conservatism
National Review embraced Goldwater. Bozell ghostwrote his campaign book, “The Conscience of a Conservative,” a hit with college students.…
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My New York City Tour of Tours
I’m a sucker for guided tours. I love a CliffsNotes condensation of a place. All of Rome in ninety minutes gave me a Visigothic sense of…
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The Impossible Contradictions of Mark Twain
In 1857, Sam stumbled into the job that would shape his identity. Aboard a southbound steamboat—part of some half-baked scheme involving…
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Jeremy Jordan Mines “Floyd Collins” for Its Sonic Gems
“The future of writing is the universe within,” the composer and lyricist Adam Guettel told an interviewer, in 2001. It had been five…
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The “Lady Preacher” Who Became World-Famous—and Then Vanished
Aimee Semple McPherson was barefoot when she left Room 202 at the Ocean View Hotel. Wearing only a bathing suit, a dressing gown, and a…
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Environmentalists Are Rethinking Nuclear. Should They?
Fourteen years after the Fukushima disaster, nuclear power is being rebranded as a climate savior, and fission is in fashion. Source link
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The Frick Returns, Richer Than Ever
The Frick Collection, on East Seventieth Street, is, by so many miles, the finest small city museum—less self-consciously eccentric than…
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“Warfare” Offers a Hyperrealist Rebuke of the American War Movie
“Warfare” ends the way a lot of movies based on true events do: with a series of side-by-side photographs. Here are the characters you’ve…
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Why the Court Hit the Brakes on School Desegregation
This is structural racism: the system is not self-correcting. Government has to intervene to break the cycle, and that is something that…
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An Arachnophobe Pays Homage to the Spider
Back in my footloose twenties, I lived for a year in Costa Rica, where I worked at a school in the central highlands and worked even…
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What We Learn About Our World by Imagining Its End
It’s a mite soon to start grieving, but scientists now project that life on Earth will probably end in about a billion years. A Monday in…
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What if the Attention Crisis Is All a Distraction?
There are awards for the year’s best films but not for its best TikTok videos. That’s too bad, since 2024 yielded several tiny…
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Yukio Mishima’s Death Cult
I once owned a photograph of Yukio Mishima squatting in the snow, dressed in nothing but a skimpy white loincloth, brandishing a long…
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He Was a Genius for the Ages. Can We Give Him a Break?
Gottfried Leibniz was not the first philosopher to think that we live in the best of all possible worlds. He may have been the unluckiest,…
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Does Morality Do Us Any Good?
Sauer, who cautions that his chronological arrangements “shouldn’t be taken too literally,” terms the results of his multidisciplinary…
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Is There Any Escape from the Spotify Syndrome?
Like countless other people around the globe, I stream music, and like more than six hundred million of them I mainly use Spotify.…
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“Black Doves” Offers a Sentimental Spin on the Spy Genre
In the new mystery thriller “Black Doves,” the purview of secret agents can include school plays, bedtime stories, and holiday…
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Sure, “Paradise Lost” Is Radical, but Did You Know It Was Sexy?
A new study charts John Milton’s influence on revolutionary thinkers but misses the sheer seductiveness of his masterwork. Source link
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The Meditative Organ Soundscapes of Kali Malone
“All Life Long,” the title of the most recent album by the composer and organist Kali Malone, is taken from a poem by the British…
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What to Read This Winter, According to Tattered Cover
Tattered Cover is a Denver institution. Founded in 1971, it’s now one of the U.S.’s largest independent-bookstore businesses. Kathy Baum,…
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What’s the Difference Between a Rampaging Mob and a Righteous Protest?
In the beginning was the mob, and the mob was bad. In Gibbon’s 1776 “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” the Roman mob makes regular…