Does Iran Have a Plan?

“No plan survives first contact with the enemy” is a military dictum usually credited to Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, and more recently to the boxer Mike Tyson…

The Fear of Black Greeks

This article contains spoilers for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. In a different time, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey would have been celebrated by the American right as a conservative film. Nolan’s…

Is AI the End of Cheap Tech?

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket Casts Electronics are getting more expensive—and the culprit has a lot to do with generative AI. Amid all the talk…

What Climate Fiction Should Accomplish

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Last week, I woke up in Washington, D.C.,…

Remember Tesla?

Nothing captures the decline of Tesla better than the Cybertruck. When the stainless-steel pickup hit the road in 2023, Tesla was the world’s biggest electric-car company. At the time, Elon…

The Peptide Gold Rush Is Coming

BPC-157 is rumored to heal almost anything: a sore shoulder, a bum knee, a pulled hamstring, ulcerative colitis. Maybe even traumatic brain injuries and multiple sclerosis, too. The drug—part of…

Photos of the Week: Alpine Swing, Disaster Simulation, Lumberjack Championship

Stefan Rousseau / PA Images / Reuters Members of the press photograph a dead mouse caught by Larry the cat, Chief Mouser to the U.K. Cabinet Office, during incoming Prime…

Why So Much Millennial Fiction Is Boring

Perhaps every generation believes that it is unsuited to its own era. As an elder Millennial, I can’t help but see how perfectly primed my cohort was for feelings of…

The Social Security Reckoning Is Finally Coming

Americans have been hearing about the looming demise of Social Security for decades. The number of old people receiving benefits has been increasing much more quickly than the number of…

The Eroticism Shortage

A little more than 20 years ago, Esther Perel was not yet an author or a podcast host. She was definitely not a household name. She was simply a psychotherapist…