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Nov 17, 2025
We are at that strange stage in the adoption curve of a revolutionary technology at which two seemingly contradictory things are true at the same time: It has become clear that...
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Nov 3, 2025
Over the past month, my mind has kept going back to one of the most trivial, and perhaps also one of the most profound, internet scandals of recent times.
You remember the scene: A...
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Oct 9, 2025
It is a dark time for free speech in America.
The Trump administration’s attacks on free speech have come in many forms, and they are quickly intensifying. Over the past...
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Aug 15, 2025
For the last few years, experts have been fighting a battle over the impact of social media on young Americans.
On one side of this battle, there were psychologists like Jonathan...
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Aug 1, 2025
Some momentous historical events, like the French Revolution or the demise of communism, come with little warning. Few contemporaries were able to predict that they were about to...
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Apr 25, 2025
Imagine this scenario.
The interior minister of a country that considers itself a democracy reports scores of citizens to the police for making critical statements about her while...
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Apr 18, 2025
Recently, an enthusiast of the classics posted four translations of a passage from The Odyssey on X, asking his followers to pick their favorite. Three were by some of the...
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Mar 21, 2025
Today is World Happiness Day. So, like every year on March 20th, you are likely to see a lot of headlines reporting on the publication of the annual World Happiness Report....
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Jan 30, 2025
Many of my friends still seem to think that AI is “all hype.” On social media, viral posts claim that the progress of AI has stalled; that the technology can at best...
Nov 17, 2025We are at that strange stage in the adoption curve of a revolutionary technology at which two seemingly contradictory things are true at the same time: It has become clear that...
Nov 3, 2025Over the past month, my mind has kept going back to one of the most trivial, and perhaps also one of the most profound, internet scandals of recent times. You remember the scene: A...
Oct 9, 2025It is a dark time for free speech in America. The Trump administration’s attacks on free speech have come in many forms, and they are quickly intensifying. Over the past...
Aug 15, 2025For the last few years, experts have been fighting a battle over the impact of social media on young Americans. On one side of this battle, there were psychologists like Jonathan...
Apr 25, 2025Imagine this scenario. The interior minister of a country that considers itself a democracy reports scores of citizens to the police for making critical statements about her while...
Mar 21, 2025Today is World Happiness Day. So, like every year on March 20th, you are likely to see a lot of headlines reporting on the publication of the annual World Happiness Report....