The electronic composer meets the larger-than-life film on its level, building the palette he’s honed over the years into a totalizing prism of sound. Though the music is obviously at its most ...

I don’t have any problem with optimists. Some of my best friends are optimists! But on the question of artificial intelligence, the noise of their exuberance distracts from problems for which there ...

Back in May 2024, a black studies professor — an academic of the type who writes dissertations about the semiotics of Beyonce — “clapped back” at one of her peers, a white man who had dared complain ...

Aggressive secularism, contrary to how it presents itself, has the same totalizing tendencies as the publicly assertive religion it claims to combat You can save this article by registering for free ...

In a career of magnificent plays, The Coast of Utopia stands out for its humor, its characters, and its warnings about ideological fervor. Most people won’t have heard of Herzen, a giant in the ...

A lifetime of reading has convinced me that books are more likely to get worse — not better — as they go. “The Breath of the Gods” bucks that trend. You could say Simon Winchester’s book, subtitled ...

The climate conformity caucus is breaking up at long last, and the latest evidence is a change of mind by none other than Bill Gates. The Microsoft billionaire turned liberal philanthropist now says ...

What, some may wonder, just happened to our supposedly sacred democracy? A growing group of dissident right-wingers has sought to supply an explanation. United around the premise that the governance ...

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How fast is the wind blowing where you live? As we see on “Weather Hunters,” meteorologists use a tool called an anemometer to measure wind speed. Anemometers work because they have arms with cup-like ...

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Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America, by Pekka Hämäläinen. Liveright. 576 pages. $40. In the 1630s, the powerful Pequot Confederacy of southern New England found itself beset by ...