AI and the Broken Career Ladder

Jay Maisel (1931 – 2026) Photographer

Who Needs Regulation When Trump Is President?

25 winners of math’s ‘Nobel Prize’ decry the AI invasion of their discipline

The Promise and Peril of Toad Smoking, the Everest of Psychedelics

Trump’s Kennedy Center Shakedown

Is AI Really an Existential Threat?

Kiss The Ring: Richard Wagner’s Opera Festival

Should Biden Get Credit for the Recent Homicide Decline?

Extended (24-minute) Interview: Dario Amodei

Who Owns What AI Learns?

Bernie Sanders aims to ban AI ‘superintelligence.’ But experts can’t agree on what the term means

Protecting New York City from Terrorism

This Week’s Photograph

A connectomics milestone: Mapping the complete male fruit fly brain

Albert Camus on the Source of Strength and How to Save Our Sanity in Trying Times

At 83, Terry Eagleton is fixated on death, which he unnervingly describes as “the erotic bliss of yielding to an impregnable power"

Lessons From Singapore: The Long Road To Water Independence

What Bush Understood That Trump Doesn’t

A Brilliant Interrogation Of Philosophy And Wonder

Geof Stone and I on "The State of Free Speech in 2026" (from the National Constitution Center)