Driver flees ahead of a worsening dust storm during the Dust Bowl; Texas Panhandle, 1936. The higher ground is getting pricey. That’s because how fast we go may be the world we get1, but where you live is the future you face. However successfully we embrace sustainability and decarbonization now,…
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Solemos olvidar que el primer partido creado en nuestro país fue un partido de oposición. En 1887, Antonio Taboada fue arrestado por osar candidatarse en oposición a Bernardino Caballero. Unos días después de salir de la cárcel, él y varios más se dieron cuenta que necesitaban juntar fuerzas,…
I can see now where this story ended, although for a long time I was playing with other endings, reluctant to let go. It ended with that moment of cinema, crossing General Stroessner’s spongy lawn and looking back to see him, framed in the doorway, waving. I waved, went through the gate and into the…
On a warm day last spring, dozens of protesters gathered outside a shopping center on the west side of Hawaii’s Big Island. They weren’t there to boycott a store or a pipeline or to deride a politician. They came to revolt against a new ban on feeding cats in the parking lot. “Stop starving the…
Secondary Gain is an anti-advice column. It follows in the tradition of other psychoanalytic experiments that have opened up the consulting room using media: from Susan Isaacs’s advice columns in the interwar period and Winnicott’s radio broadcasts during World War II to experiments with radical…
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Developing employees November 8, 2023 Big Cheese Photo/Getty Images Summary. Leer en españolLer em português Project managers, in theory, are some of the best candidates to become CEOs of their organizations. In their daily work, they must bring together all the disparate aspects of theory, reality,…
Alain Delon as Riple Tom Ripley in René Clément’s Plein Soleil (Purple Noon) 1960 Comrades, Welcome to the desert of the real. Free from all forms of censorship that pervade our media, Žižek goads and prods philosophy, politics, culture, and so on. For the time being, my writing on here will be…
The first test screening for The Talented Mr. Ripley was, as producer William Horberg remembers it, “a total disaster.” The early cut of Anthony Minghella’s 1999 film, adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel, plopped its eponymous con artist (Matt Damon) into a seaside Italian town—where…
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“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who…
Originally published in Arabic, this is our first piece in a rolling online issue about Palestine, born out of both the unfolding genocide in Gaza, in the aftermath of October 7th, and ongoing contentions with international emanations of the so-called “Palestine Question.” Essays will engage the…
Profiles Does the director of “Alien,” “Blade Runner,” and “Gladiator” see himself in the hero of his epic new film? November 6, 2023 Sony’s Tom Rothman calls the octogenarian director “the single best argument for a second term for Joe Biden.”Photograph by Christopher Anderson for The New Yorker On…
Profiles In more than a hundred works of fiction, Oates has investigated the question of personality—while doubting that she actually has one. November 20, 2023 Oates kept a journal for twenty-six years. Throughout its four thousand pages, she alludes to a secret. “It’s always there,” she…
Clever and dexterous, his writing delights in puzzles, puns and lepidoptera. Here’s where to start. (There’s so much more than “Lolita.”) By Oct. 15, 2023 People who dislike Vladimir Nabokov tend to find his dexterity stressful, like watching a circus performer juggle torches for hours. The solution…
Grant Singer (right) at a New York screening of Reptile. Grant Singer has lit people on fire. He’s summoned extraterrestrials, turned bone-breaking dancers into crumbling statues, decapitated them, and birthed children from their gaping necks. He’s pulled people’s faces off to reveal Dennis Rodman,…
October 12, 2023 Oct 12, 2023 Dinodia Photos/Alamy Letter From the Editor The editor-in-chief of Jewish Currents on recommitting to our movements in this moment Arielle Angel Tweet Copy Link Email This has been the hardest week we’ve ever had to weather as a staff at Jewish Currents. Events are…
So, I was thrilled to see the response to my Atlantic article from Friday. I had expected far more negative reactions from people that considered their comfortable management positions threatened. Still, then again people on LinkedIn seem to have a certain kind of brain that only lets them post…
Early career September 12, 2023 HBR Staff; fotostorm/Getty Images Summary. Leer en españolLer em português Hard work has been romanticized since corporations existed. In the business world, idioms about how sleep is for the weak or how no amount of talent can supersede hard work were doled out for…
At a conference recently, someone pulled me aside and told me they’d be down to offer me funding for my research. I was like, awesome, because for years people have been yelling at me for doing surveys on the internet. If you’re new to my work, I’m a self-taught researcher, driven to learn through…
Books The X-Man How Elon Musk became a superhero and then a supervillain. September 11, 2023 Day by day, Musk’s companies control more of the Internet, the power grid, the transportation system, objects in orbit, the nation’s security infrastructure, and its energy supply.Photograph by Mark Mahaney…
Pick up the phone, develop a point of view, let go of needing credit. Real advice from a multi-hyphenate for navigating the professional world. Photos by Maddy Rotman Published In collaboration with Urban Outfitters and Dickies, we created a series of stories that feature creative leaders who offer…
Bari Weiss, Sarah Haider, Grimes, Anna Khachiyan, and Louise Perry at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles. Photo: Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images The question “Has the Sexual Revolution Failed” contains within itself a number of other questions (failed at what? Failed whom? Why are we…
The worst relationship I ever had involved a man who was fond of telling me about how much he was working on himself. It was constant. Every day included lengthy discussions of emotions, namely his, of processing my actions and how they affected him. When I would attempt to assert my…
Platform Realism This thread by Roland Meyer proposes the concept of “platform realism” to describe the quasi-photorealistic output of generative text-to-image models like Midjourney. The term is modeled after Socialist Realism, which likewise provided “not depictions of real events, but…
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BRIAN WILSON HAS BEEN DEAF IN HIS RIGHT EAR since childhood. He mixed the Beach Boys’ albums, including Pet Sounds, in mono because he couldn’t hear them any other way. “It was sort of like being robbed of something, some pleasure of life,” he said in 1976. “I’m not complaining, but it’s a little…
This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . Last winter, the 37-year-old literary critic and Wesleyan professor Merve Emre stood in front of a microphone in Rachel Comey's Soho boutique. The New York Review of Books…
Whatever passes for conservative thought in the American academy usually passes through the influence of Leo Strauss. In his teaching, the political philosopher combined an outward respect for liberal democracy with concern that this regime neutralizes the higher types of human beings, those capable…
I am intensely envious of Adam Phillips. The British psychoanalyst and writer has published some twenty-odd books, starting with a study of the British analyst Donald Winnicott in 1988. Every year or so since then he has issued a new volume of psychoanalytically tinged observations on “the…
Longform From the closeted to the overexposed, this is a lineage of queer indie rock icons. July 5, 2023 Graphic by Marina Kozak; inset photo of Boygenius by Vivian Wang; top row: Perfume Genius, Vampire Weekend, Kele Okereke, Meg Duffy of Hand Habits; middle row: Ed Droste of Grizzly Bear, St.…
Life in Plastic Photo: Hanna Lassen/Getty Images I did expect it to feel like marketing. I did expect it to be defensive. I did expect for Margot Robbie to be beautiful and Ryan Gosling to be harmless and for myself to leave the theater pretty much unchanged, just a little more degraded, like a doll…
The closest thing that I have ever received to a love letter was a photograph of a dissected cow’s heart. He had salvaged it from a biology practical and, in a flourish of inspiration, smeared it thro
A paper from computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University and the Center for AI safety offers “a simple and effective attack method that causes aligned language models to generate objectionable behaviors.” They use an adversarial model to generate “suffixes” that can be added to any prompt to…
“I have,” Joyce Carol Oates says, “so many ideas.” That’s putting it mildly. It’s hard to think of another writer with as fecund and protean an imagination as the 85-year-old, who is surely on any shortlist of America’s greatest living writers. Oates, whose latest is the unsettling short-story…
I love to learn and the longer I live, the more I love learning, the more I measure the value of my moments by the amount that I learn inside them. I’ve been very fortunate to have worked and played o
Annals of Inquiry The theory behind C.B.T. rests on an unlikely idea—that we can be rational after all. July 10, 2023 Illustration by Evan Cohen I’ve had only one panic attack. It happened in the fall of 2008, during a period when my wife and I were graduate students in English. I was walking across…
Outdoor Voices, founded by Tyler Haney in 2014, became a lifestyle choice as much as a clothing brand. Credit...Sarah Karlan for The New York Times How Outdoor Voices, a Start-Up Darling, Imploded The
Credits Joe Zadeh is a contributing writer for Noema based in Newcastle. In 1929, one of Germany’s national newspapers ran a picture story featuring globally influential people who, the headline proclaimed, “have become legends.” It included the former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, the Russian…
My personal inbox, as it stands, is largely useless. Of the 100 emails I can see at a glance, two of them are things I asked for — changes to a profile, an order receipt – and the rest are adverts from companies that I have absolutely unsubscribed from. One is for a perfume company that I once used…
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