The AI investment boom is a gamble of epic proportions. Yet on both sides of the wager, it seems, the house wins.

We’re living in a period of excess business pricing power, not overbearing workers.

Leadership at the iconic progressive university has declared war on its own workforce, fired tenured professors, and ...

Matt and Sam talk to historian Kim Phillips-Fein about her new book, Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against Equality in America.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026, 192 pp. What is the question of autofiction: Is it true, or is it a good story? Does it matter? Or do we not, in fact, find the speculation to be its own bloodsport?

Matt and Sam talk to historian Kim Phillips-Fein about her new book, Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against Equality in America. In this ...

Matt and Sam talk to Jasper Nathaniel about the role archaeology plays in Israel’s nationalist mythology and in the annexation of Palestinian territory. Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-BellAugust 10, ...

An interview with Stuart Schrader, author of Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, about how U.S. police unions built themselves into a formidable political force, and ...

An interview with Stuart Schrader, author of Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, about how U.S. police unions built themselves into a formidable political force, and ...

In many ways, Christopher Nolan’s film is not a faithful adaptation. But it takes seriously both what the text is doing and how it has been read since. Why, then, have Emily Wilson and other scholars ...

The chief scandal of the AI boom is not the secretive financial machinations of tech oligarchs, but how much money they have raised on the open promise of an automated, transhumanist future.