John von Neumann Thought He Had the Answers

Dostoevsky’s Favorite Murder

Mark Zuckerberg Is TNR’s 2021 Scoundrel of the Year - The nitwit founder of Facebook has created the worst, most damaging website in the world

The Myth of Regenerative Ranching

The Afterlives of E.M. Forster

Nabokov in Time (1966)

How the transparency collective DDoSecrets eclipsed WikiLeaks

The CEO Trying to Build a White, Christian, Secessionist Tech Industry - Andrew Torba, CEO of Gab, represents the new, even more right-wing alternative to Silicon Valley.

The Failures That Made Ian Fleming

Michael Pollan’s All-Natural Highs

The Silent Lessons of a Quiet Place Part II

America’s Obsession with Self-Help

The Crucial, Little Understood Science of the Seafloor

The Case Against the Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory

Facebook Is Designed to Spread Covid Misinformation - The White House wants Facebook to crack down on anti-vax posts, but that would require the social media giant to transform on a fundamental level.

The Billionaire Space Race Is a Tragically Wasteful Ego Contest - Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk are spending billions to go to space, using money and resources that belong to the people

The Endless Work of Trying to Win Yourself a New Life

What’s Wrong with Bob Dylan’s Biographers?

The Last Thing We Need Is an Uber for Off-Duty Cops - Private businesses are paying police big bucks to work during their off-hours

Amazon Wants to Eat Health Care Next - The tech giant may be opening its own pharmacies, and Google wants to mine patient data

Facebook Now Says It’s The Solution To The Crises It Created - Through Ads And Op-Eds, Facebook Is Leaning Into The Demand For More Regulation—But Only On Its Preferred Terms

The Origins of the Wirecard Scandal

The Last Men’s Hotel in Chicago

The Laws Giving People the Right to Crash Cars into Demonstrators

The Haunted Imagination of Alfred Hitchcock

Graham Greene Against the World

The Sad Implosion of Google’s Ethical A.I.

Break up the Telecom Giants: Verizon and AT&T hold the keys to the internet for millions of Americans—and have enough power, online and off, to be just as worthy of scrutiny as the social media giants.

Nevada’s Sales Pitch to Silicon Valley: You Can Create Your Own Government Here - A bill in the works would turn over large tracts of Nevada to tech companies, allowing them to build—and run—their own towns.

Don’t Let Amazon and Airbnb Get Their Tentacles in Vaccine Distribution

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