Why Wendell Berry Didn’t Worry About the Future
Wendell Berry was not an easy man to reach. When I wanted to interview him for this magazine in the spring of 2015, his publicist warned me that a press…
Rediscover the Ordinary
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The Backlash Against Data Centers
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Crypto Money Still Matters for the Midterms
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Why So Many Men Are Unraveling
Jon Ronson had never really thought about the term masculinity until a strange series of events led him down a rabbit hole involving castles, cage fights, and an actor playing…
OpenAI Wants to Talk About The Federalist Papers
Late last month, OpenAI launched a rather grand mission: nothing less than defending individual political freedom in an age of all-powerful machines. The company’s “Strategic Futures” team has styled itself,…
The Meaning of the Lindsay Clancy Mistrial
Source: YouTube Summary During the five weeks of her murder trial, Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of murdering her three young children in 2023, spoke barely a word. She…
What Tech Titans Don’t Understand About Sci-Fi
This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. When I read Thomas More’s Utopia in college,…
There’s No Such Thing as an AI ‘Lab’
When did AI companies become AI labs? That term, and the image of studious, exacting white-coated scientists that it conjures, has become curiously entrenched as a descriptor for the businesses…
An Alien Scholar’s Notes on Trump’s Washington
We’ll start this conference looking back on 2026 Washington Architecture by being honest: We have no idea what happened here. The snapshot of this planet that my comrades and I…















