Is the Age of Reading Over?

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Over the past 18 months, scholars have debated—and likely will continue to long into the future—why voters…

Music’s New Superstar Is Here—And She’s Rather Relaxed

Source: YouTube Summary Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey are two of music’s great masters of emotional excess, and it’s long seemed fitting that they’ve shared one of Billboard’s highest achievements:…

The Ostrich Effect

If you’re looking for a reason to despair over the state of American education, there are many places you could start. You could, for example, worry about the all-consuming phones—or…

The Other Victims of a Wrongful Conviction

Photographs by Desiree Rios “I bet you’re extremely happy,” Jay Young texted me. “So you and the slimy media going to fawn over his side and forget about my dad’s…

The Smithsonian’s Show Trial on Capitol Hill

Source: YouTube Summary The nation’s most scrutinized museum director showed up to Congress this week acutely aware of her audience. Anthea Hartig, the head of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of…

The American People Need the Truth About the Iran War

Source: YouTube Summary For nearly five months, Donald Trump and his Cabinet have been misleading the American people about the war in Iran. When the president makes statements about the…

The Worst Part of the Cyclosporiasis Response

If you’re confused about whether you can eat the shredded lettuce on your Doritos Locos tacos again, you’re not alone. I cover food safety for a living—and I love Taco…

The Scariest Part of OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack

Yesterday, OpenAI made an alarming disclosure: An assortment of its most advanced AI models, including one that has not yet been released, had autonomously broken out of the company’s internal…

Why Are Groceries So Expensive?

Source: YouTube Summary Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeOn this week’s episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts questioning whether the…

A Novel About the Benefits—And Costs—Of Being a Rebel

At the beginning of the 21st century, one book mapped, with uncanny accuracy, where American literature was headed. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by an upstart writer named Dave…