Month: February 2023

Is the Marriage Between Democracy and Capitalism on the Rocks?

Never easy, the relationship between the vaunted political system and economic order appears to be in crisis. New books by historians and economists sound the alarm.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/15/books/review/books-democracy-capitalism.html?smid=em-share

Police Brutality Is Not Always About Race

The killing of Tyre Nichols is a reminder that even the most horrific injustices are often complicated.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/opinion/police-violence-race-poverty.html?smid=em-share

How to Destroy (What’s Left of) the Mainstream Media’s Credibility

Objectivity is a hard standard, but good journalism can’t do without it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/opinion/mainstream-media-credibility-objectivity-journalism.html?smid=em-share

Why Fox News Lied to the Viewers It ‘Respects’

It’s about “representation.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/opinion/fox-news-lies-dominion.html?smid=em-share

American Teens Are Really Miserable. Why?

Social media has added to a sense of isolation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/18/opinion/depression-teen-social.html?smid=em-share

When the Movies Pictured A.I., They Imagined the Wrong Disaster

Instead of the chilling rationality of HAL in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” we get the messy awfulness of Microsoft’s Sydney. Call it the banality of sentience.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/movies/ai-movies-microsoft-bing-robots.html?smid=em-share

The Imminent Danger of A.I. Is One We’re Not Talking About

We are so stuck on asking what the technology can do that we are missing the more important questions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/opinion/microsoft-bing-sydney-artificial-intelligence.html?smid=em-share