Category: Lifestyle

Can a War Ever Be Just?

Phil Klay shares his views at Wisdom of Crowds: Morality and War: Two words that…

Say Hello to AI Steve, the AI Chatbot Running for Parliament in the UK

By Jason Dorrier at Singularity Hub: It’s a year of elections, and the internet is…

How Autocrats Weaponize Chaos

By Michiko Kakutani in Time Magazine: The confluence of multiplying political, economic, and social crises…

The Life and Death of Hollywood

Daniel Bessner at Harper’s Magazine: In 2012, at the age of thirty-two, the writer Alena…

American Cricket Found a Star. He’s a Silicon Valley Tech Worker.

Pranshu Verma in The Washington Post: Saurabh Netravalkar finds it hard to log off Slack. But…

Shikarpur’s Balconies and Brackets

by Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro at Youlin Magazine: I have been documenting Shikarpur’s cultural heritage since…

Tomiwa Owolade: My New York Intellectuals

Leonard Benardo‘s note at Ideas Letter: The New York Intellectuals were a hallowed group of…

How AI is Going to Transform Civilization Over the Next 5-10 Years

Scott Aaronson at Shtetl-Optimized: My friend Leopold Aschenbrenner, who I got to know and respect…

The New-Old Authoritarianism

From Project Syndicate: Over the past decade, Ruth Ben-Ghiat has emerged as one of the…

A Deep Dive Into New York’s Subways With Ed Hotchkiss

Lawrence Weschler at Wondercabinet: Ed Hotchkiss was born in Denver in 1956 and remained thereabouts…

Can Democracy and Billionaires Coexist? Not on This Planet.

by Sam Pizzigati at Inequality: One person, one vote. The classic essence of democracy. But…

Do Less. It’s Good for You.

Jamie Ducharmie in Time Magazine: You take a vacation day, but get distracted by the thought of…