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We Are the Borg August 22, 2024

In the fall of 2014, an MIT cognitive scientist named Tomaso Poggio predicted that humankind was at least 20 years away from building computers that could interpret images on their own. Doing so, declared Poggio, “would be one of the most intellectua...

A Singular Man August 21, 2024

All of life was a play for Christopher Isherwood; sometimes he was the lead actor, sometimes a clear-eyed observer in the stalls. In person he was a born performer—charming and gregarious and adaptable; as a writer he delighted in playing one of his ...

The Well-Trained Boy August 13, 2024

In BoyMom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity, British author Ruth Whippman offers readers a window into her mothering journey. This is a beautifully written, often thought-provoking, and disarmingly vulnerable book that begins ...