Culture

Why We Believe (or Pretend To)

Science, reason, and democracy challenged God — yet billions still cling to religious faith. Here’s why.

Oct 5 •

The Unraveling of Shared American Culture

Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension shows how authoritarian threats and a politically fractured market undermine satire, news, and America’s shared stage

Sep 18 •

The Ghost in the Machine

BACK-TO-SCHOOL ESSAY: How AI is killing take-home assignments and forcing education to rely on labs and tests

Sep 2 •

Across the Water: The Islands That Divide and Connect Greece and Turkey

TRAVELOGUE: Beneath the island calm of Kos lies a tempestuous past of massacres, forced migrations, and tales of empires lost

Aug 23 •

What our favorite sports say about us

WEEKEND READ: A look at the top four sports and the people obsessed with them

Aug 10 •

Have the best stories already been told?

TEN NOVELS YOU MUST READ (or, In Praise of Those Who Got There First)

Aug 3 •

Fear and Loathing in the Driving School

WEEKEND READ by LUCA WOLFE MURRAY: Trying to get a license in Romania proved to be an exercise in absurdity

Jul 19

A surreal encounter with Gene Simmons

Kiss and tell: I concluded that the terrifying star of glam-rock hated me

Jun 8 •

The world's most unexpected classic car collection

LARRY LUXNER REPORTS: A museum that is a must-see for classic car enthusiasts, among the top five in the world, and weirdly unheralded

Jun 3

A surreal encounter with Ricky Martin

The Puerto Rican superstar, I discovered, could not disappoint a fan.

Jun 1 •

Ending the Tyranny of the Feed

THE WAR ON TRUTH, PART V: Social media is the primary delivery system for lies, radicalization and polarization. Time to hold the algorithms…

May 19 •

Eurovision again proves interesting

The cultural elites, disgusted with Israel, are a) not with the masses and b) mulishly indifferent to the power of a spectacular narrative

May 18 •

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