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
Society
Tuesday
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?
King Charles’s cancer and the future
The greatest threat to its survival will come from within
The depressed press
Polls say trust in media is at an all-time low. But a better reflection than that can be found in what’s happening in the journalism business
The age of mass revenge
While this cycle of resentment, revenge and reaction is nothing new under the sun, its ubiquity seems historically unprecedented
Monday
Environmentalism: from concern about clean air to throwing soup at the Mona Lisa
Among history’s many bad ideas, Garrett Hardin’s ‘tragedy of the commons’ should rank high on the list
Sunday
Inside Bannon and Burra’s post-CPAC blowout
Mixing with MAGA in the War Room
Friday
Could AI ruin the election?
The detection systems to separate real footage from AI-generated are completely losing the arms race
Thursday
‘Maybe I have the healing I need’: speaking to Father Paul Wierichs
The former FBI chaplain ministered to the dead and dying on 9/11. Terminal cancer means his time is coming, too
Why the luxury life feels alien
When I emerged onto Twitter in 2015, I felt like I was driving a jalopy on a freeway filled with Teslas
How Covid amnesia spread through the right and left
Four years into ‘two weeks to stop the spread,’ the main characters of the pandemic have taken to revisionism
My friends keep dumping me
It’s not a conscious or cruel dumping — it’s the dump of indifference
The digital habit
The vast majority of people neither living in what they call ‘real time’ nor experiencing life and the world itself at first hand
Tuesday
WATCH: Jon Stewart jabs at Biden and Trump’s age in Daily Show return
‘How do you go on TikTok and end up looking older?’
Friday
Vladimir Putin’s night at the Tucker Carlson circus
The full interview Carlson released on his website and on Elon Musk’s X was received primarily with a yawn
