The space race gets serious
Can the Western private sector give us the edge over China and Russia?
Society
Monday
The tantric sex retreat that wasn’t
I could treat the whole thing with bemused Tom Wolfe snarkiness — or keep an open mind and get with the program
The joy of experiencing the Mountain West on horseback
I believe in going horseback for as far and as long as I can
Friday
What the Pope really thinks about frociaggine in the Vatican
‘Francis clearly understands that the Vatican is structurally gay,’ says Frédéric Martel
Wednesday
Joe Biden’s TIME interview: the good the bad and the ugly
‘Everybody, all the bad guys are rooting for Trump, man. Not a joke’
Tuesday
Vivek Ramaswamy thinks he can save BuzzFeed with these three weird tricks
#2 Will Blow Your Mind
Friday
Harrison Butker exposes the media’s blindness
Did any of the commentators even watch the speech?
Thursday
Should you buy a folding phone?
They come at a premium
Wednesday
AI and the new way of war
The killer robots are coming
Should elders be respected?
For the American people, the past is either dead or it is bunk, and the present, being unreformed and highly unsatisfactory, leaves them with only the future to believe in
Tuesday
Johann Hari’s career-long trouble with the truth
A British accent can always help cover a multitude of sins in the American publishing world
Tuesday
What Charles Darwin got wrong
High among David Stove’s antipathies was irrationality in the philosophy of science
Tuesday
Inside the May issue: technology
Is the West ready to face the challenges of advancing technology?
Tuesday
Scientists’ strange offering to the final frontier
We used to name the stars after Greek gods. Now we shoot nudes and dead boomers into the great unknown
The death of good conversation
Ours is an age that prefers the battle of ideas and opinions rather than pleasure of discovering the mysteries of another person
A canyon caper
Overhead the Milky Way was beginning to show, faintly emergent from the celestial depths, the existential wastes of eternity
Monday
Inside the April issue: What happened to America’s capital?
Why DC is a ghost town
Tuesday
Ronna McDaniel booted from NBC
She lasted under half a Scaramucci
Monday
Why is the UK and US treatment of Kate Middleton so different?
In America, there is a far greater irreverence that is unsurprising from a country that threw out its last ruler
Sunday
Why everybody should have seen the Google Gemini blunder coming
Why didn’t the tech geniuses at Google foresee these unintended consequences?
