Taylor Swift’s Networking Spectacular
Source: YouTube Summary At roughly 7:30 p.m. on Friday, July 3, the words JUST&T MARRIED! appeared on the jumbotrons outside Madison Square Garden. The sign meant that the “T&T” in…
Lab-Leak Payback Has Begun
Source: YouTube Summary The origins of the coronavirus pandemic remain contested; the evidence is incomplete. But pundits, activists, and members of the Trump administration have long insisted that the case…
China Is Abusing AI
China’s release of yet another impressive open-source AI model has lately raised urgent questions in Silicon Valley about which country will dominate the AI market. What has received less attention…
The Genes That Could Cancel Out a Fatal Diagnosis
When Ludivine Verboogen and Romain Alderweireldt’s third child was born in Belgium in late 2015, they marveled at his long fingers. Perhaps one day he will be a famous pianist,…
I Heard You Singing
I. Will and his brother, Butch, lived under the same roof for 23 years without it ever dawning on either of them that living together was what they did. This…
Your Vivid, Vibrant Everyday Life
Sign up for Ordinary Extraordinary, Ian Bogost’s guide to making everyday life vivid again. You’ll receive one edition every Saturday for the next eight weeks. What if your life could…
What Biden Changed About American Foreign Policy
The debate over the future of the Democratic Party’s foreign policy has become intensely personal. In May, Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii posted on social media that although he did…
The Classic Novel That Today’s Young Men Should Read
The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger’s classic of adolescent alienation, turns 75 this summer, though it has the cast-iron reputation of a much older book. Just as Moby-Dick…
The Demons of Maryville
Source: YouTube Summary Photographs by Houston CofieldFrom the outside, the church looked like a plain brick storefront, the mirrored windows peeling, a sign above painted white with blue letters. THE…
The Other Celebration of America
The celebrations of America’s 250th birthday, though they offered many wonderful moments, did not provide the sweeping sense of national unity for which some people had hoped. Some Americans found…














