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Tingley v. Ferguson will be a referendum on Christian morals in psychiatry. Credit: Bob Korn May Christian counselors offer Christian counsel? This is the question the Supreme Court of the United States is expected to weigh in on this week. …

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story You may have seen the recent meme involving the phrase “the feminine urge to,” followed by some pithy example of melancholy or chaotic behavior. “The feminine urge to stop replying to…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story As a compulsive reader of physical books, I tend to cue up an audiobook not so much as a sonic counterpart to print but as a portable verbal atmosphere to accompany…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story One morning last August, while making my bed, my entire visual field shifted sharply to the left, as though I were watching a movie and someone had bumped into the projector.…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story                                 This is drawn from “Artificial: A Love Story.” Sourse: newyorker.com Rate this item:1.002.003.004.005.00Submit Rating No…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story There’s a special pain to the news of the death of the British filmmaker Terence Davies on Saturday at the age of seventy-seven: his career, filled with some of the greatest…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Lately on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, my timeline is filled with vapid posts orbiting the same few topics like water whirlpooling down a drain. Last week, for instance,…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story New Yorkers are, by necessity, used to having their plans upended at the last minute. Anyone who regularly rides the bus or subway knows to be on the lookout for announcements…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The other day my aunt told me she was leaving town at the end of the month to see Moses. She wasn’t headed to Bible study or Mount Sinai; she meant…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Is the U.S.—long thought to be the land of new beginnings—in danger of becoming a sclerotic gerontocracy? “In a declining society, the images of an aging leadership can come to embody…