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Democracy's Dangerous Flirtation with Autocracy: Michael McFaul on America's Abdication of Global Leadership
A former US ambassador to Russia warns of America’s slide into autocracy
As American ambassador in Moscow between 2012 and 2014, Michael McFaul had a …
11 months, 1 week ago
Nobel Laureate Peter Agre: Why Scientists Must succeed Where Politicians Fail
A Nobel laureate on why we should sometimes trust scientists, and not politicians, to fix the future
Peter Agre won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Why Our Fear of Technology Is Nothing New—And Why That Should Give Us Hope: From Cuckoo Clocks to ChatGPT
Why our panic about AI is nothing new—and why history suggests we have far more creative agency over our technological future than either Silicon Val…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Not Even God Can Judge Tupac Shakur: How a White Suburban Sportswriter Found the Humanity and Tragedy Behind Hip-Hop’s Most Misunderstood Star
WHY LISTEN? Because Jeff Pearlman strips away the myth to reveal the real Tupac Shakur—a brilliant, wounded, and fiercely human artist whose story st…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Fighting to Tell the Truth: Why every Film about War is an Anti-War Film
After almost two decades in limbo, Michael Pack’s once-rejected Iraq War film finds its moment — a reminder that even the most supposedly “patriotic”…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Between the River and the Sea: American Jews and the Soiling of the Zionist Dream
Perhaps the real question isn’t whether we can still talk about Israel, but whether we can afford not to. Silence, Daniel Sokatch warns, is complicit…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
The Vinci Code: How AI is Turning Everyone into James Bond
As AI radically democratizes the world, we’re all about to become James Bond — or so says longtime spook watcher (and player) Anthony Vinci. In his n…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Huawei vs Ericsson: How Huawei Turned Sweden's "Neutral" Tech Advantage Into a Cold War Liability
Huawei matters, not just because it’s the world’s largest telecommunications company, but because it reveals so much about contemporary Chinese econo…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
How Smart is the MAGA Intelligentsia? The Professors, Philosophers, and Trolls who Transformed Rage into a Winning Political Ideology
So how smart is the MAGA intelligentsia? According to Laura K. Field — a longtime observer of the American right and author of Furious Minds — the ma…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
This Is Not a Browser—Did René Magritte Really Predict the End of the Web Age?
The Belgian surrealist René Magritte was a smart artist, but could the 20th century futurist really have predicted the end of the Worldwide Web age? …
11 months, 3 weeks ago