Lifestyle
Noma’s Food Is Art. Its Head Chef and Co-Owner Is a Problem
People love to scoff at this sort of high-concept culinary stuff. What’s served at Noma is “food” in the way that couture is clothing–a…
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Commentary: My promise to you: AI didn't write this column, and if it's after my job, it'll be over my dead body
For quite a while now, someone has been living inside my computer, writing emails for me. I don’t recall signing up for this artificial…
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Jihad in America: The Michigan Attack | National Review
This isn’t just about opposition to Israel. Source link
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What Went Wrong When Susan Sontag Met Thomas Mann?
Gil Rodin sent his nephew to the Reinhardt Workshop, a performing-arts school run by the towering Austrian émigré director Max Reinhardt,…
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The Feminist Visionary Who Lost the Plot
Elizabeth Cady Stanton believed that she was a person of “superior intelligence and courage.” This fuelled her radical politics—and her…
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Taking the Worst-Case Scenarios in Iran Seriously | National Review
But not literally. Source link
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Antisemitism Has No Place in Our Movement | National Review
Remarks from this week’s symposium in Washington, D.C. Source link
Business
Anduril set to acquire Orange County space surveillance company
Southern California defense tech darling Anduril Industries has struck a deal to buy Orange County space surveillance firm ExoAnalytic…
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Two Playwrights Tackle Father Figures
Still, the most remarkable performance at the Cherry Lane is by Peter Friedman, who plays the kind of father you rarely see in art: a good…
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What’s Gone Right in the Iran War? | National Review
Some perspective is in order. Source link
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Talarico the Texas Trickster | National Review
He is not, in fact, a moderate, unless ‘moderate’ is now a synonym for ‘white man.’ Source link
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The Next Game from the Creator of Wordle Is Here
Wardle had tried cryptic crosswords when he was younger, but found them to be impenetrable. “I didn’t know how to begin,” he told me. The…
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James Talarico’s Convenient Faith | National Review
When the Texas candidate cites his Christianity, it’s often in service of a trendy progressive position. Source link
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‘Epic Fury’ Gives Hope to Long-Suffering Iranians | National Review
But for Iraqi Christians, it’s déjà vu. Source link
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Life in Hitler’s Capital
According to Buruma’s sources, life in 1939 proceeded much as before for most Berliners, albeit with less illumination (the street lights…
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A Nineteenth-Century Countess’s Sultry Selfies
Virginia Oldoini helped conceptualize and starred in more than four hundred portraits so experimental and expressive that they have drawn…
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Lessons for Subduing the Oldest Hatred | National Review
Forget grievance. To counteract bigotry takes a particular resolve. Source link
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Biplanes, Trains, and Super-Fast Ponies, Zip Codes, Stamps, and Ben Franklin | National Review
The fascinating history of the U.S. Postal Service, but, alas, it’s now illegal to mail your child. Source link
Lifestyle
The Most Beautiful Freezer in the World
Arrival was a shock. Inside the station, I unzipped my engorged duffel, retrieving my precious scale and cookie cutters. I filled my…
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Hamit Coskun’s Victories and Losses | National Review
The man who burned a Koran in England won the most recent appeal. But the decision is not a win for free expression. Source link
News
Hundreds of applications, no jobs and AI replacements: California's brutal tech work landscape
Laid-off tech worker Joseph Tinner has spent almost a year hunting for a job. It has been a depressing crash course on the sea change in…
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Lawsuit alleges Google chatbot was behind a user’s delusions and death
Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini encouraged a 36-year-old Florida man to embark on violent missions and to take his own…
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Commentary: In two new court cases, judges find that AI does not have human intelligence
It’s becoming clearer with every passing day that the only people making a serious effort to come to grips with the implications of…