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Oct 2, 2025
It was only a matter of time. Major League Baseball announced on September 23 that next year’s regular season would see the introduction of robot umpires for balls and...
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Sep 26, 2025
A strange fact about the United States of America is that its name is not very specific. When I was an editor at a magazine on Latin American politics, I was under strict...
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Sep 5, 2025
A lot of complaints about AI chatbots center, for good reason, on their sycophancy. Yes, you’re absolutely right, they tell you; what an amazing insight, I...
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Jul 14, 2025
I recently published, in The Nation’s culture section online, an essay on Tom Wolfe’s 1969 Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test—his portrait of Ken...
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Jul 9, 2025
Halfway into their famous 1964 road trip from La Honda, California, to New York City, Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters pulled up to a beach on Lake Pontchartrain and dropped acid....
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Apr 24, 2025
Your first book, Privilege, is at once a devastating take-down of Harvard, as a bastion of a self-satisfied elite careerism, and a rueful love letter to it. Since those days,...
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Feb 28, 2025
SAN FRANCISCO – EARLY JANUARY
The question of where Northern California begins is a famously contentious question among Californians. Here there is a dispute between the Bay...
Oct 2, 2025It was only a matter of time. Major League Baseball announced on September 23 that next year’s regular season would see the introduction of robot umpires for balls and...
Sep 26, 2025A strange fact about the United States of America is that its name is not very specific. When I was an editor at a magazine on Latin American politics, I was under strict...
Sep 5, 2025A lot of complaints about AI chatbots center, for good reason, on their sycophancy. Yes, you’re absolutely right, they tell you; what an amazing insight, I...
Jul 14, 2025I recently published, in The Nation’s culture section online, an essay on Tom Wolfe’s 1969 Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test—his portrait of Ken...
Jul 9, 2025Halfway into their famous 1964 road trip from La Honda, California, to New York City, Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters pulled up to a beach on Lake Pontchartrain and dropped acid....
Apr 24, 2025Your first book, Privilege, is at once a devastating take-down of Harvard, as a bastion of a self-satisfied elite careerism, and a rueful love letter to it. Since those days,...
Feb 28, 2025SAN FRANCISCO – EARLY JANUARY The question of where Northern California begins is a famously contentious question among Californians. Here there is a dispute between the Bay...