The iconic line “Call me Ishmael” should be spoken dialogue, not voiceover. It should be the narrator trying to make ...

Speaking of which, there’s also a bunch of works on the list that aren’t TV shows at all in a traditional sense. “Chernobyl,” ...

People who are living in the United States of America in 2024 are living in what is indisputably one of the richest countries on the planet, at a time of unprecedented global prosperity. And yet, even ...

Journalists and activists talk a lot about how Congress is hopelessly gridlocked and unable to get anything done. And to an extent, it’s true. On lots of high-profile issues, Congress is deadlocked, ...

Polls indicate that Democrats are in line for a very good midterm. They’re heavy favorites to win the House, poised to do well in gubernatorial races, and stand a good chance of flipping the Senate ...

When I saw that Jacob Coxon, a senior Anthropic employee, quit his job last week on the grounds that he believed the creation of an artificial intelligence model powerful enough to engage in recursive ...

You’ll notice that some of the questions in today’s Mailbag don’t have links. Those are from people who contributed to last November’s GiveDirectly fundraiser at a tier that entitles them to ask a ...

Almost everyone I know says they were against the Iraq War as a teenager, which I’m sure is true. Unfortunately, I was 21 at the time and also writing on the internet, so I’m on record as having ...