AI’s Ethics Are Evolving…into Satanic Blood Rituals
Aw, you humans have been scared of tech forever, the AI says....
By Jeannette Cooperman
What a Wise Greek Taught Me About Will Power
Prudentius offers “an ancient guide to not giving in.”
Decoding—and Recovering?—the Veil
No other garment is as modest and erotic, humble and powerful, obvious and enigmatic.
The Populism of Art
Why does art ease our minds? I think because it takes us away from words. It lets us express what words cannot. There is mischief in creation, after all. You are plotting and scheming, not mindlessly obeying.
Welcome to Cafe Coca Cola
Spies, revolutionaries, and film stars haunted the oldest cafe in Panama
First No Reading Lamps, Then No Books?
Will we stop reading altogether? And what will we substitute, to deepen our souls?
Does “Earthing” Work?
You know how disconnected we have become when it takes a craze to remind us to go barefoot and feel the earth.
Donald Trump’s Road to Damascus
A spiritual pilgrimage we never expected.
Grumpy Old…Men?
Curmudgeons, you see, have standards. Sherlock Holmes could not abide being fooled, and Statler and Waldorf suffered no foolish puppets.
Why Humans Shun the Humanities
History grows us up. And literature? It complicates the world for us. This is why we must kill the humanities.
She’s Leaving Home, Bye-Bye
Seneca said we each dwell in two communities: the place of our birth, and the community that “is truly great and truly common, in which we look neither to this corner nor to that, but measure the boundaries of our nation by the sun.” I would far rather be a citizen of the world than, by accident of birth, an American. I feel disloyal writing this.
Everything Addresses Us
“Tech is taking all the things you already disliked—triviality, noise, rudeness, interruption—and delivering them in a format you don’t have any control over.”