THE WALRUS MAGAZINE (June 10, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Summer Reading’…
by Soraya Amiri
Afghans worry their children are doomed under new curriculum enforced at gunpoint
The culture war’s favourite prophet can’t finish a straight thoughtby Luke Savage
Leslie Perlow and Salvatore Affinito
Julian Birkinshaw
Chris Carr and Dave Christy
FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE: This issue features ‘The AI Arms Race’ , a collection of must-read articles on the convergence of artificial intelligence and geopolitics. With the U.S. and China escalating their intense battle for AI supremacy across economic and military spheres, power dynamics are already shifting. FP provides the full picture for you to download and read at your leisure. Unlock this collection, along with more hard-hitting geopolitical analysis.
“Doomers” have mostly self-silenced, but that doesn’t mean the technology has become any safer. | Bhaskar Chakravorti
Data might be the “new oil,” but nations—not nature—will decide where to build data centers. Jared Cohen
Washington faces a daunting but critical task.
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features Haruka Aoki’s “Nothing to See” – It’s good to be a cat. By Françoise Mouly Art by Haruka Aoki
A Cold War-era report is a reminder of how long suspicion has trailed people of Chinese descent in the U.S. By Michael Luo
New Zealand’s ex-Prime Minister, an anti-Trump icon during COVID, revisited her impoverished New York days, when she slept on a couch and loitered at the Strand. By Andrew Marantz
Tam O’Shaughnessy came out as Sally Ride’s partner of twenty-seven years when she wrote of the relationship in Ride’s obituary. By Michael Schulman
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW: The latest issue features ‘Money Problems’…
In “The Haves and Have-Yachts,” the New Yorker writer Evan Osnos presents an urbane set of profiles in excess.
Our columnist on the month’s most notable releases.
In “The Once and Future World Order,” by Amitav Acharya, and “The Golden Road,” by William Dalrymple, our best hope might be that history repeats itself.
PHILOSOPHY NOW MAGAZINE (June 6, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Digital Philosophy’…
Mahmoud Khatami asks, can machines make good moral decisions?
Vincent J. Carchidi agrees with Descartes and friends that our ability to use language creatively distinguishes our minds from computers.
Max Gottschlich on sense and nonsense when using AI in academia.
Jimmy Alfonso Licon asks, when should we prioritise android rights?
Amir Haj-Bolouri enquires into possible meaning through technology.
by Rick Lewis
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 6.8.25 Issue features Sarah Viren on the declining protections of academic freedom; Robert Draper on the D.C. restaurant that’s become a hotspot for Trump administration insiders; Carlo Rotella on how roots music is thriving in the age of the algorithm; and more.
Maura Finkelstein is one of many scholars discovering that the traditional protections of academic freedom are no longer holding.
sScreening can now determine their risk for an ever-growing list of conditions — including ones we can’t do much about .By Emily Baumgaertner Nunn
How one of the N.B.A.’s scrappiest teams came to dominate the league. By Sam Anderson
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (June 5, 2025): The latest issue features ‘University Press Issue’…
A new book illuminates how freedom became associated with choice and questions whether that has been a good thing—for women in particular.
The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life by Sophia Rosenfeld
Two books look closely at both the limitations and the possibilities of the art of literary translation.
The Philosophy of Translation by Damion Searls
Speaking in Tongues by J.M. Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos
The surprising power of placebos demonstrates how the mind influences both the experience of ill health and the evolution of illness.
Placebos by Kathryn T. Hall
The Power of Placebos: How the Science of Placebos and Nocebos Can Improve Health Care by Jeremy Howick
The gowns and mortar boards were out in customary force at Harvard last week for graduation day. Founded in 1636, 140 years before the United States itself, the university knows a thing or two about how to do pomp and ceremony.
But this year’s rituals played out under a cloud with Harvard, along with several other universities in the US, having come under sustained attack from the Trump administration.
Trump has claimed his escalating battle with America’s oldest, wealthiest and most prestigious university is about tackling campus antisemitism, foreign influence and “woke” or “leftist” ideology in academia. Others see a more sinister authoritarian agenda, where the goal is to enforce deference from America’s largest institutions. Bring down the oldest of them all, the theory goes, and the rest will surely follow.
The big story | Is Viktor Orbán’s grip on power weakening?
Opposition activists and journalists explain why the Orbánisation of the US may fail and how a former ally could end the Hungarian PM’s 15-year reign. By Ashifa Kassam and Flora Garamvolgyi in Budapest
Science | The risk and reward of rapid Everest ascents
The use of xenon gas and hypoxic tents before recent expeditions has triggered alarm in Nepal, where guides fear it could encourage inexperienced climbers. Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Gaurav Pokharel report
Interview | Jacinda Ardern on leadership, legacy and why she quit
The former prime minister of New Zealand tried to do politics differently. But six years into power she dramatically resigned. In an exclusive interview with the Guardian’s editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner, she explains why
Opinion | So long, Elon: all you really shredded was your reputation
Judging by Musk’s approval ratings, Tesla investors won’t be the only ones happy to see the dethroning of the king of Doge, writes Marina Hyde
Culture | Inside Britain’s new museum of absolutely everything
Poison darts, a dome from Spain, priceless spoons and Frank Lloyd Wright furniture … Oliver Wainwright is wowed by how the V&A East Storehouse lets visitors ‘breathe the same air’ as its 250,000 artefacts
Freeze–thaw cycles in an icy pond could let an enzyme copy RNA double helices indefinitely — suggesting one way in which evolution could have begun.
Climate change is lengthening the gap between snowmelt and vegetation growth.
Temporary device records eye movement and brain activity to monitor mental strain.
Genomic evidence suggests that the bloodsuckers might have been among the first urban insect pests.
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