Absent a change of course on AI safety by governments worldwide, former Cambridge professor and leading AI-safety expert David Krueger believes that human extinction is "more likely than not." He ...

To hear from, say, a friend you might have loved from whom you have not heard in quite a while and you know something of their drang and sturm so that you were beginning to worry,   brings back the fi ...

W. D. Ehrhart, a frequent contributor to this magazine's poetry section, reflects on grief and loss following the death of Beanie, his family’s beloved cat of nearly twenty-two years.

Channeling Tolstoy's 1886 novella, Robin Greene, who has now turned seventy-one, reflects on aging, mortality, and meaning.

“The cultural and theological division between Islam and the West is real, and these differences in religious philosophies play themselves out in a very concrete way in the modern world, just as they ...

“Engagement is inseparable from hope and motivation. The top quartile of students most engaged in school are more than four times as likely as the least-engaged students to believe they have a great ...

One of America’s best-known political scientists has been turning his attention to religion. In this interview, Charles Murray discusses his new book and the slow, unexpected path that took him from ...

Experts Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders explore how Artificial Intelligence is already shaping the executive, judicial, and legislative branches, showing that we are already, at least in part, ...

“And so things continue as before, because in a post-historical era, sprinkled with German-Hegelian state worship and a view of oneself as the summit of civilizational development, there is no need to ...

Pericles is remembered as Athens’ great democratic statesman and orator. But as Cambridge University classicist Paul Cartledge argues, his private life—especially his relationship with Aspasia—also ...

“The United States’ British roots also have value because they provide a link to a history older than any homegrown alternative the United States possesses.” ...

“Like most members of Generation X, I had never used TikTok, but when the political push to ban it intensified in 2023, I pulled out an old smartphone and installed TikTok to see what the fuss was all ...