
Kicking Robots
Humanoids and the tech-industry hype machine by James Vincent
The Tune of Things
Is consciousness God? by Christian Wiman
Grievous Country
Photographs from Syria by Victor J. Blue

Humanoids and the tech-industry hype machine by James Vincent
Is consciousness God? by Christian Wiman
Photographs from Syria by Victor J. Blue

HARPER’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Why Don’t We Trust The Media?’
Anatomy of a credibility crisis by Jelani Cobb, Taylor Lorenz, Jack Shafer, Max Tani
Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation by Daniel Kolitz
On the last days of Gene Hackman by Joy Williams


HARPER’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The End of Public School as We Know It’
A new frontier in American education By Chandler Fritz
A swamp-rat slaughter on the bayou By Nathaniel Rich
Why Congress must impeach Trump By Chris Lehmann

Do the Democrats really want reform? by Andrew Cockburn
The puzzle of AI facial recognition by Michael W. Clune
Has the Treasury market started to crack? by Mary Childs
How OCD came to haunt American life by Andrew Kay
How a band of island nations became Israel’s staunchest defenders by Pete McKenzie
Butterflies, deep time, and climate change by Lewis Hyde

Harper’s Magazine (April 16, 2025): The latest issue features ‘War In The West Bank” – What choice for the Palestinians….
The end of peaceful resistance in Palestine by Ben Ehrenreich
On (maybe) unraveling a government cover-up by Maddy Crowell
How my mother learned to be invisible by Geoff Dyer

HARPER’S MAGAZINE (March 19, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Social-Skills Crisis’ – Have we forgotten how to work together?; Undercover with New York’s Guardian Angels and The End of Psychoanalysis As We Know It?…
by Kent Russell

Harper’s Magazine (February 19, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Round Two – Trump’s Futile War Against The Deep State; Listening for the Future of Music; RAchel Cusk on Marin Amis and The Softer Side of American Conspiracy Theories…
Trump’s second attempt at dismantling the bureaucracy by Andrew Cockburn
Listening for the future of music by Matthew Sherrill

Harper’s Magazine (December 18, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Ghost Music’ – Inside Spotify’s Fake-Artist Scheme; Among the Ruins of Lebanon and Cynthia Ozick on the Pleasures of Letter Writing…
Spotify’s plot against musicians by Liz Pelly
Is civil commitment rehabilitating sex offenders—or punishing them? by Jordan Michael Smith
On the epistolary life by Cynthia Ozick