I Said No to $20,000 Because Writers Must Take a Moral Stand on AI
And yet so many others said yes. It began earlier this year, when someone I respect and like reached out to me. Their offer?
Should India Speak a Single Language?
The Indian government wants more than a billion people to embrace Hindi. One scholar thinks that would be a loss.
Paul Rulkens: Why the Majority is Always Wrong
Paul Rulkens is an expert in achieving big goals in the easiest, fastest and most…
Poem: Dawn
The beetle still stares from the riding moon, the ship of death stands motionless on frozen waves: I hear the silence of early morning rise from the rocks.
A Brief History of the Passenger Pigeon
And the last of the species, Martha, named for Martha Washington, dies in a cage in 1914 at the Cincinnati Zoo.
Reckoning With Growth
Though there had been 600 years of dramatic change before 1750, these changes did not increase the standard of living of ordinary citizen of England.
The Specter and the Shadows
My oldest friends are from the Bronx. A half-dozen of them, and all without any parents remaining. Me, still with a mother who…
The ‘Mad Egghead’ Who Built a Mouse Utopia
Lee Alan Dugatkin in The Guardian: Standing before the Royal Society of Medicine in London…
Poetry by History’s Greatest Poets or AI? People Can’t Tell the Difference—and Even Prefer the Latter. What Gives?
by Andrew Dean at Singularity Hub: Here are some lines Sylvia Plath never wrote: The…
Economic Populism: Republicans For Labor
“We’re for American workers who want to build a life in their homes with dignified jobs and raise the families supported by those dignified jobs.”
What Does Democracy Look Like?
That we associate democracy with political demonstration is no surprise. After all, democracy is the rule of the people, and…
Marlon Brando, Elia Kazan, and the Tumultuous Making of On the Waterfront
How the classic film, made in the wake of the McCarthy-era Red-hunting trials, pitted director Elia Kazan against star Marlon Brando.