How to Restore the Art of Conversation
“We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.”
“We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.”
The best explanation yet for the maddening rigidity on the far right—and the far left.
How much of a placebo's efficacy is in the brain, and how much in the heart?
Is it his cosmopolitan background? His stint at the Iowa Writers Workshop? His knowledge of human suffering?
La persona, a person, is feminine even if referring to a man. El vestido, the dress, is masculine, though la falda, the skirt, is feminine. Why do this to us?
The AI with the calm, reflective voice, encouraging us to think? They scrapped it for a fast-paced sycophant.
Why are we humans so impatient with any way of learning the world that is not our own?
What disgusted a handful of people about one of the best recent shows on television—and what that reveals about us
Market fundamentalism’s propaganda gave us climate destruction, a housing crisis, the opioid scourge, a lousy pandemic response...and, ironically, Trump.
A Dickensian outing with the ghost of Easters past.