CULTURE
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Will A.I. Make College Obsolete?
Nonetheless, it seems a bit odd that, when it comes to predictions about our A.I. future, which typically range from…
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Are Disney Adults the Happiest Debtors on Earth?
Jennifer Davidson, a woman in Columbus, Ohio, describes herself as a “mild” Disney adult because she doesn’t have a merchandise…
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How “The Fast and the Furious” Tells the Story of Hollywood
In a new book, “Fast and Furious Franchising,” the media scholar Dan Hassler-Forest argues that the series is central to…
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Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “Process of Elimination”
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A Wunderkind’s Best-Selling Nostalgia | The New Yorker
“Lázár” moves quickly, scarcely leaving readers time to settle into one moment before whisking them off to the next. How…
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The Novelist Reimagining the Japanese American Internment
The United States began allowing Japanese people to leave the camps before the conclusion of the Second World War. In…
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David Armstrong’s Probing Gaze | The New Yorker
Sophisti-pop In 2005, when the singer Niia Bertino was seventeen, she was recognized as one of the top high-school jazz…
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How Much Has the War in Iran Depleted the U.S. Missile Supply?
The U.S. has only eight THAAD batteries worldwide. At least one of them has been damaged by Iranian strikes in…
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Mad About the Mandolin | The New Yorker
Calace, I discovered, was a Neapolitan workshop that had been making mandolins since 1825, and Raffaele Calace, the grandson of…
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The Age-Old Urge to Destroy Technology
Our go-to tale of resistance to technology is the story of the Luddites: In England in the early nineteenth century,…
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