The hepatitis B vaccine episode is a preview of what happens when scientific institutions are corrupted by people who reject the scientific method itself.
How AI training produces evasion over engagement.
The homogenisation of culture begins with the loss of language.
A former BBC journalist explains how the corporation discarded impartial journalism and why we need a news revolution.
Neil Young is eighty.
From Achilles to Anakin Skywalker, the messiah myth has evolved from religious prophecy to cautionary tale.
Susan Sontag’s 1974 essay about Leni Riefenstahl and fascist aesthetics displayed the critic at her most stiflingly moralistic and aristocratic.
Jonathan Kay speaks with theoretical physicist and cosmologist Lawrence Krauss about his latest book project, in which renowned scholars speak out about threats to open inquiry and the scientific process.
Jonathan Gould’s new Talking Heads biography recalls a once-thriving and now disintegrating independent media network that could elevate eccentrics with potential.
Amid all the overexcitement about artificial intelligence, there is little room for public consideration of mind-blowing findings on natural intelligence.
The ideological capture of college writing programs has ushered in an age of didactic, anodyne, and tedious books.
An unorthodox new book by one of America’s finest nonfiction authors tries to make sense of Bob Dylan.
The hyperbole surrounding AGI misrepresents the capabilities of current AI systems and distracts attention from the real threats that these systems are creating.
A "live" album recorded in 1975 saved both KISS and their label from bankruptcy, transforming a struggling cult band into a merchandising juggernaut—even though most of it wasn't actually live.
How the 6 Gallery reading in San Francisco on 7 October 1955 changed the counterculture.