Books
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Simons challenges the dominant story of AI-driven efficiency, arguing that the intelligence powering today’s systems is built from accumulated human interaction. As organizations automate work and offload thinking, they risk…
Apr 28, 2026
On not talking to people who are not worth talking to
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Showcasing some of Hollywood’s best pro-freedom movies, Mark Judge writes that the goal of the VOC Anti-Communist Film Festival is to help the movie industry—and hopefully a lot of young Americans—rediscover the value of liberty and the iniquity of socialism.
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An Elegy — and Encomium — for the NYPL
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Lena Dunham, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Helen DeWitt
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Manifesto(es)
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Lena Dunham and her social strategist on coming back online, her new memoir Famesick, and embarking on a Substack book tour
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Hidden oases in one of America’s most populous cities.
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The German writer’s postwar works were ruthless in their condemnation of a country that, in its inability to reckon with historical atrocity, was beyond reform.
Apr 28, 2026
It's the cycle of life. The cycle of showbiz.
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On Max Watman's 'Tomorrow, the War'
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In 2001, six-year-old Haley Zega got lost on a family hike in the Arkansas wilderness. She was found after three days where she survived drinking river water. Now there’s a book about it. What does it take to be a book? Novelist and Bard College professor Benjamin Hale is Haley’s uncle, so he wrote an article about it in Harper’s. When an article is expanded into a book, you wonder how much extra filling you get in the reading. A lot of books should be articles, rather than the other way around. (A lot of articles should be Substack posts, a lot of posts should be tweets, and a lot of tweets shouldn’t exist at all.)
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From the Savoy in London to an airport hotel in Queens, Jim Windolf tells the little-known story of the rooms where the musical giants forged a surprisingly close bond.
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Ross Barkan's Colossus
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In the face of bourgeois Jacobin challenges, can the American experiment survive the twenty-first century?