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Are we taking AI seriously enough?

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story My relatives own a compact two-room beach bungalow. It’s part of a condominium that hasn’t changed much in fifty years. The units are connected by brick walkways that wind through palm…

Taking on Elon Musk: One Tesla Dealership at a Time

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Elon Musk made headlines again on Saturday for his ongoing efforts with DOGE and his efforts to avoid a lawsuit for offering cash to Wisconsin voters ahead of the state’s Supreme…

The Fall of the House of Tenenbaum

Are the stars of Wes Anderson’s classics cursed? Credit: Ramsay de Give-Pool/Getty Images Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative player… What happened to my Royal Tenenbaums? In recent years, a series of seemingly unrelated events have left me wondering…

The Movie That Missed the Peak of Awakening

Snow White is already an outdated chaos. Credit: cfg1978/Shutterstock Loading Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative player… Society reaches “peak awakening” around 2025, but Disney’s new Snow White movie misses the point. This remake of the 1937 animated classic Snow White…

The Creator’s Being

An exhibition of Michelangelo’s sketches for the Sistine Chapel raises important questions relevant to our historical era. Credit: Dennis MacDonald/Shutterstock Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative player… Michelangelo Buonarroti, by his own account, did not consider himself a great…

Welcome to the preschool plague years

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Last September, my then three-year-old daughter started kindergarten for the first time, wearing a ladybug shirt, bright red pants, and that special, beaming, dimpled smile she usually reserves for her joyful…

Intimate photos of New Hollywood from an ingenue

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Candy Clark arrived in Hollywood in the early 1970s, a feisty twenty-year-old who left her conservative Texas hometown to pursue a career in modeling in New York City. Although she had…