Literary Review of Canada The latest issue features…
A collective wake-up call by Kyle Wyatt
On the promise and perils of global soccer by James Brooke-Smith
Remember peanuts and Cracker Jack? by Stacey May Fowles
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW: The Engineering issue features ‘Go big or go home’. That may be true—sometimes. But, just as often, solving engineering challenges means thinking small. From the tiny transistors powering the AI boom to the machines digging the world’s longest tunnels, human ingenuity is tackling problems at every scale. Plus: A fresh spin on air conditioning, stratospheric cell service, and more.
The AI era needs ever faster chips. ASML has a monopoly on the expensive contraptions needed to pattern them. Can anyone catch up?
Researchers are starting to explore the tools and systems we need to develop to cool down the planet.
As the data-center boom puts pressure on the grid, some companies say the answer isn’t just more power plants but software that dials down centers’ energy-guzzling ways when demand spikes.
After decades of hunting, physicists still don’t know what makes up most of the universe’s matter. Now they need to cast a wider net.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Who Will Win the Next War’….
How New Technologies Threaten America’s Military Advantage by Paul Scharre
Panic Is Misguided—and Counterproductive by Dennis Blair
Moscow’s Military Power After Ukraine by Michael Kofman
How the Iran War Will Transform America’s Military Role by Dana Stroul
And the Coming Crisis in Strategic Stability by Rose Gottemoeller
HISTORY TODAY MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Declaration of Independence’, Black Loyalists, how England learned Old English, sacrifice and early Christianity, and the Hans Crescent strike.
That the United States declared its independence in July 1776 is well known; that the British state commissioned, but never published, a counter-declaration is not.
Hoping to weaken the rebels’ cause, Britain offered freedom to enslaved people who joined the British army. At the end of the American Revolutionary War that promised freedom had to be honoured – but how and where?
Looking for a new route to Jerusalem, medieval crusaders turned to the Strait of Hormuz.
An exhausted America turns two hundred and fifty by Christopher Hooks
Can the GOP save the humanities? by Ann Manov
A primer on a free people’s government by William T. Vollmann
Our magazine has refused to accept what contributor Gore Vidal once described as the “cozy unremitting war” that puts this country in a state of conflict, year after year. Katrina vanden Heuvel for The Nation
The pamphleteer’s insistence that America live up to its revolutionary vows still rings true 250 years later. John Nichols
Five progressive leaders offer a powerful reminder of the country’s unfinished journey.
The senator may be remembered as a bridge between the promise of America and the fulfillment of that promise. Jeet Heer
Labour lacks a philosophy or a plan for government. A few simple changes could transform the country’s fortunes
The turnover of prime ministers is high, and expectations for the next one are low
Anglofuturism and ‘decline porn’: the Brave New Worlds of the right
Would we be better off living in the Middle Ages? Astonishingly, influential voices on the American intellectual Right now seem to think so. Rather than affirming the Enlightenment ideals that inspired this country’s founding—reason, rights, markets, liberal democracy, and church–state separation—they are longing for, of all things, rule from the throne and altar. Last October …
On the 200th anniversary of his death on July 4, 1826, and the 250th anniversary of his Declaration of Independence, we need Thomas Jefferson now more than ever. We especially need his progressive views on the severance of church from state by a “wall of separation.” We in the United States live in troubling times …
The question confronting American educators today is not whether we should teach ethics to children—virtually everyone agrees that moral education is essential. The question is how we should teach ethics in an increasingly diverse society where traditional religious approaches no longer work for everyone. I believe we need to fundamentally rethink our approach to moral …
NATIONAL REVIEW: The latest issue features ‘The Cost of Fraud’ – And what to do about it.
American taxpayers deserve better. Robert VerBruggen
He is a committed ideologue and a partisan brawler who’s worked out how to hide those traits from the general public. Charles C. W. Cooke
What we learned from the riots of 2020. Noah Rothman
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