Bernie Sanders wants to outlaw artificial superintelligence. The risks he points to are real—but the answer to a powerful new technology is regulation, not prohibition, and China has no intention of pausing.
The digital revolution is not remaking the world as the industrial one did.
The mainstreaming of therapy culture may be driving us all out of our minds.
Why is masturbation so shameful?
Name-calling, guilt-by-association, and other unscrupulous methods of argument are polluting our discourse.
Anna D. Shapiro’s recent revival of Eric Bentley’s 1972 play about the HUAC hearings offered entertainment along with the pleasures of moral certainty and ideological reinforcement.
To be naked is to give up obsessive self-presentation and take off the mask.
Watching Gillo Pontecorvo’s film six decades after its release permits a nuanced understanding of the events that it portrays, which was unavailable when it first came out.
A thrash-metal classic turns forty.
The Trump administration’s scientific illiteracy about rates of autism is going to have catastrophic results.
Treat a warming planet as an engineering problem rather than a moral failing, and it starts to look solvable.
A new exhibition curated by Lars von Trier provides a fascinating look at who and what has influenced one of the world’s most prodigiously gifted and provocative filmmakers.
The knowledge and infrastructure needed to engineer a pandemic pathogen, once confined to a handful of elite military and civilian research institutions, are quietly becoming more accessible.
The rise, fall, and rise again of one of the 20th century’s most important journalists.
There is a rather large difference between the banned books promoted by celebrities and genuinely transgressive and provocative writing.