The Art of Looking
A tribute to David Hockney (1937–2026).
Julia Friedman
· 10 min read
Selective Pressure, Selective Silence
David Reich and the politics of recent human evolution.
Jon Entine, Patrick Whittle
· 14 min read
Colbert and Cancellation
The #CancelColbert saga in 2014 established the paradigm for countless hashtag controversies that followed.
Kevin Mahnken
· 6 min read
Richard Dawkins and the Claude Delusion
What is consciousness for?
Sean Welsh
· 10 min read
Lists, Damn Lists, and Critical Correctness
Love them or hate them, lists are now firmly established—along with cats and porn—among the apex predators of the modern internet.
Dave Thompson
· 12 min read
Never Neverland
The new Michael Jackson biopic and the campaign to whitewash the King of Pop’s reputation.
Andrew Hammel
· 32 min read
Homeric Heresies
Outrage over a black Helen of Troy misunderstands the long Western tradition of radically reinventing classical myths.
Cathy Young
· 11 min read
A Man for All Seasons
Susan Owens’s handsome new monograph reconsiders the life and career of the English landscape painter John Constable.
Graham Daseler
· 9 min read
Why AI Is Not About to Go Feral
Worries about AI doom rarely take Darwinian evolution seriously. A new paper argues we should—but we are still further from that scenario than its authors suggest.
Maarten Boudry
· 13 min read
How a UN Agency Misled the World on Cancer Risk
Nathan Schachtman’s indispensable new paper explains how the International Agency for Research on Cancer has misled the public with its classifications of carcinogens.
Geoffrey C. Kabat
· 11 min read
A Deceitful Propaganda Campaign Marketed as a ‘Prank’
CBC-funded TV producers using fake names are ambushing Canadians who take a positive view of their country—including an 82-year-old Ontario grandfather who invited the film crew into his home.
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read
Frampton Comes Alive! at Fifty
The improbable story of rock’s greatest live album.
Jacob Bielecki
· 13 min read
The Science Misinformation Gap
The transatlantic battle over social media and censorship.
Jon Entine
· 8 min read
Creators and Destroyers of Worlds
Despite the dangers, we must seize the gifts bequeathed by world-altering technologies, since these amount to life in unprecedented abundance.
Ian Nieves
· 9 min read
Staring at the Sea
It would be very difficult to make a great film from a source as flawed as Camus’s novel, but Ozon has managed to make a very good one.
Jaspreet Singh Boparai
· 19 min read