Gleb is a successful businessman, a Russian muzhik made good—wealthy, sturdy, practical—who owns a logistics company in a midsize, provincial city. His employees respect his competence and his no-nons...
11.02.2026 Newyorker.com
They say the kids aren’t reading anymore. But while the publishing industry has certainly changed over the past several decades—thanks to the ubiquity of e-readers, the rise of audiobooks, and, yes, t...
11.01.2026 Avclub.com
In the press release put out by the Nobel Prize Committee for Literature on October 8, the secretary reported Anne Carson’s comment that she was in Iceland, “listening to the wind. ” Although there is...
10.28.2026 Classicalstudies.org
“I don’t think that there is any point in being Irish if you don’t know that the world is going to break your heart someday. ” —Senator Pat Moynihan after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. But you...
10.27.2026 Irishamerica.com
But stories do not only imitate a pre-existing reality. They also engender new realities by expressing what is possible. The frontier AI models embody both kinds of storytelling. On one hand, they imitate past human thinking, responding to user prompts by seeking out relevant patterns from the vast database of previously archived material that they were trained on. But they also fabulise a new reality. The founders of Anthropic and OpenAI seem to subscribe to the same vision of the imminent arri...
11.02.2026 Bangkokpost.com
This fall, online privacy debates have been heating up in Washington. Tomorrow, the Federal Trade Commission will finally deliver its long awaited online privacy report. Chairman. Over the past year F...
11.02.2026 E-pluribusunum.org
It is a tale of two families, the Tinubu and Abubakar. The story made headlines when Atiku Abubakar’s son, Abba, decamped from father to sup with his adversary, Tinubu. Never in our presidential histo...
11.02.2026 Thenationonlineng.net
In an interview with Kurdistan24, Hiva Panahi, an award-winning Kurdish poet, author, and political sociologist born in Sanandaj, Iran, reflects on the intersection of poetry, philosophy, and politics...
10.28.2026 Kurdistan24.net
On October 7, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a civilizational speech about the West. The Athens Acropolis was in the background, emphasizing his words’ meaning. Although Rubio’s address r...
10.31.2026 Fairobserver.com
The number 666 carries a fascination that spans millennia. Today, it evokes fear and dread, often linked with the Christian concept of Satan. Yet its origins lie far from evil, rooted in sacred symbolism, cosmic order, and human understanding of perf...
11.01.2026 Greekreporter.com
