New Intrigue

If Then by Jill Lepore

Long before Amazon, Twitter and Facebook, a company called Simulmatics Corporation sought to predict and control…

If we are lucky in our lives, we come across artists who are always paying attention,…

The first time I knew something was wrong was at the end of law school. It…

If you watch one film about technology this year, make it this one. The Social Dilemma…

Earlier this year, I read Breasts and Eggs, a feminist novel by the author Mieko Kawakami.…

I’ve spent most of my adult life chasing a kind of certainty : the belief that…

It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. This is…

A friend recently gave me Arthur C. Clarke’s novel The City and the Stars. On the…

For the last few months, I’ve been working on a hobby project to recreate, loosely speaking,…

In 1985, Neil Postman wrote a book called Amusing Ourselves to Death. In it, he warned…