‘Artificial Intelligence?’ No, Collective Intelligence.
A.I.-generated art has flooded the internet, and a lot of it is derivative, even boring or offensive. But what could it look like for artists to collaborate with A.I. systems in making art that is act...
24 Maj 202451min
A Conservative Futurist and a Supply-Side Liberal Walk Into a Podcast …
“The Jetsons” premiered in 1962. And based on the internal math of the show, George Jetson, the dad, was born in 2022. He’d be a toddler right now. And we are so far away from the world that show imag...
21 Maj 20241h 1min
The Disastrous Relationship Between Israel, Palestinians and the U.N.
The international legal system was created to prevent the atrocities of World War II from happening again. The United Nations partitioned historic Palestine to create the states of Israel and Palestin...
17 Maj 202457min
This Is a Very Weird Moment in the History of Drug Laws
Drug policy feels very unsettled right now. The war on drugs was a failure. But so far, the war on the war on drugs hasn’t entirely been a success, either.Take Oregon. In 2020, it became the first sta...
10 Maj 20241h 2min
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
