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Do We Think Too Much About the Future?
How’s that going? Two facts stand out. First, since no one actually knows the future, guessing, speculating, or simply making things up remains the state of the art for...
Straight Outta Hormuz
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Andrew Yang Enters the Caption Contest
The politician tries his hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons. Source link
Sesame Street Enters the Caption Contest
Elmo, Big Bird, Cookie Monster, and Abby Cadabby try their hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons. Source link
The Try Guys Enter the Caption Contest
The internet sensations and co-authors of “The Hidden Power of F*cking Up” try their hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons. Source link
Zoe Saldaña and Zach Galifianakis Enter the Caption Contest
The “Missing Link” stars try their hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons. Source link
A Father’s Newfound Feminism
Elle Fanning Gets the Money ShotThe Oscar-nominated actress discusses collaborating with Nicole Kidman, the art of playing a performer, and her new series, “Margo’s Got Money Troubles,” in which...
Muriel Spark, the Double Agent
When Spark was in her mid-thirties, in London, she had a psychotic breakdown, provoked by malnourishment and an amphetamine addiction. One of her symptoms was an obsession with cryptograms,...
The 2026 Met Gala: Bezoses, Beyoncé, and Blood
This year’s event had controversial co-chairs, a softball theme, and at least one apt reference to an art-historical scandal. Source link
The Idea That Reshaped Identity Politics Has a Complicated Backstory
Plenty of scholars and journalists have written histories of these contentious terms, “intersectionality” and “critical race theory.” Now Crenshaw has written something different: a history of herself. In “Backtalker:...
Harriet Clark’s Début Is a New Kind of Coming-of-Age Novel
Now a third joins their company, Harriet Clark’s superb first novel, “The Hill” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). It is narrated by Suzanna, who lives with her grandparents in New...
The American Revolution Wasn’t the Main Event
America’s influence went beyond haberdashery. Several of the world’s leading revolutionaries had spent time in the country. The English-born Thomas Paine started his radical career writing “Common Sense” in...