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The New Yorker
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AI and the Sin of Sloth
Forget AI going haywire. The real problem is that it’s working as intended: making us lazier and less able to connect.
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Tatiana Schlossberg (1990-2025)
My personal admiration for her Proustian writing and her Job-like mother.
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Russia Through a Feminist Lens
Julia Ioffe’s “Motherland,” a much-anticipated memoir and history of Russia, offers an original take on America’s long-time adversary.
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The Most Famous Journalist in America
“I think I’m good,” said Joseph Kraft, and paused to pick up the phone. He was sitting in the basement office of his home in Washington’s Georgetown on election day 1974. Upstairs there were Paris Review posters on the wall and objets d’art from China on the coffee tables. Here in his office, his secretary […]
