Before Congress and philosophers decide how an AI system ought to live and die, we might want a clearer account of what sort of thing we believe AI is.
I want to apologize to you, denizen of the future, for the decisions that we, the people of 2026, made that determined how you live. In America today, ...
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Susan Hanssen

The dark blot on our nation’s history that was Roe v. Wade has been removed. On this most American of holidays, that’s something to cheer.
Dovie was a New Yorker whose last public writing act was to speak out against assisted suicide in a very personal practical way.
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Magazine: Athwart

The performative narcissism on display speaks poorly of an entire generation, of TikTok, of social media, and of the whole inane cohort that lives for likes. The paradise we think we remember wasn’t ...
AOC and others rallying to the rapper’s defense are telling on themselves. If the recording artist Macklemore had only made “pro-Palestinian comments” from the stage during his performances, as the ...
President Trump’s nominee to replace Eight Circuit Judge Mack Traynor is North Dakota Solicitor General Phil Axt.
The long wait for organs threatens the ethics of transplant medicine, with some bioethicists calling for the end of the dead donor rule — allowing “ death by organ donation ” — while a few have gone ...
E ven paranoiacs have enemies, they say, but sometimes they are just paranoid. Representative Ayanna Pressley, a founding member of the “Squad,” organized 59 Democrats to co-sign a letter demanding a ...
We do seem to radically discount how disruptive television was to cultural transmission and the education of elites.
Natalie Dodson is a policy analyst with the Ethics and Public Policy Center's HHS Accountability Project.
Many colleges and universities now require incoming students (called freshmen in the old days) to take a course on what being in college entails — a ‘First Year Experience” (FYE) course. Are they ...