Science & Technology
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Friendly Neighborhood Philosopher
Every now and then, a work of art comes along that helps us think through the thicket…
How Not to Defend Reading
Has Elon Musk read the Odyssey? Despite the trillionaire’s endless carping about Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of…
Life and Death in AI
In a life of reading, there are special times of wonder and delight. Books come into your…
AI Child Porn and the Libertarian Lie
On August 25, Judge John Z. Lee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit…
Introducing The Widening Gyre: A Technology Newsletter
The advent of artificial intelligence has done more than just push the frontier of the digital age;…
Mathematics After AI
Last year, mathematicians from more than a dozen universities met in the city of Leiden to discuss…
The Truth About Truth API
Five years ago, the most powerful media companies in the world—Facebook and Twitter, as it was then…
Left to Our Own Devices
Hiding in most of our pockets is a shiny black mirror with a logo on the back…
Mad as Hell
In a simpler time, the internet was full of cats. Flooding message boards and YouTube with images…
The Enemy Within
The Information State is one of the most important books of the twenty-first century. In a virtuoso…
Letters—August/September 2026
My first thought on “Boomer–Zoomer Housing War” by Carmel Richardson was the title; my second thought after…
While We’re At It
In my meditation on the legacy of World War II above, I conclude with an observation about…
Prisoners of Our Own Devices
To Arrive Where We Started:Belonging in the Modern World by ian marcus corbinyale university press, 200 pages, $32.50…
The Seduction of Simulation
Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on technology and the human person, Magnifica Humanitas, offers a measured assessment of…
Is Britain’s Social Media Ban a Trojan Horse for Censorship?
My mother is fond of saying that children spell love T-I-M-E, by which she means they have…
