Watching the Protests From Israel
Ultimately, the Gaza war protests sweeping campuses are about influencing Israeli politics. The protesters want to use economic divestment, American pressure and policy, and a broad sense of internati...
7 Maj 20241h 4min
Is Green Growth Possible?
A decade ago, I was feeling pretty pessimistic about climate change. The politics of mitigating global warming just seemed impossible: asking people to make sacrifices, or countries to slow their deve...
30 Apr 20241h 3min
Salman Rushdie Is Not Who You Think He Is
Salman Rushdie’s 1988 novel, “The Satanic Verses,” made him the target of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who denounced the book as blasphemous and issued a fatwa calling for his assassination. Rushdie s...
26 Apr 202459min
This Conversation Made Me a Sharper Editor
In our recent series on artificial intelligence, I kept returning to a thought: This technology might be able to churn out content faster than we can, but we still need a human mind to sift through th...
23 Apr 202453min
A $1.7 Million Toilet and Liberalism's Failure to Build
There is so much we need to build right now. The housing crunch has spread across the country; by one estimate, we’re a few million units short. And we also need a huge build-out of renewable energy i...
16 Apr 202449min
What if Dario Amodei Is Right About A.I.?
Back in 2018, Dario Amodei worked at OpenAI. And looking at one of its first A.I. models, he wondered: What would happen as you fed an artificial intelligence more and more data?He and his colleagues ...
12 Apr 20241h 32min
Will A.I. Break the Internet? Or Save It?
The internet is in decay. Do a Google search, and there are so many websites now filled with slapdash content contorted just to rank highly in the algorithm. Facebook, YouTube, X and TikTok all used t...
5 Apr 20241h 25min
How Should I Be Using A.I. Right Now?
There’s something of a paradox that has defined my experience with artificial intelligence in this particular moment. It’s clear we’re witnessing the advent of a wildly powerful technology, one that c...
2 Apr 20241h 14min
