Gideon Lewis-Kraus

The badge of maturity, for a literary genre, is the anxiety of influence—the compulsion felt by an aspiring writer to pee upon a fire hydrant that an earlier eminence once peed upon with distinction.

The badge of maturity, for a literary genre, is the anxiety of influence the compulsion felt by an aspiring writer to pee upon a fire hydrant that an earlier eminence once peed upon with distinction.

In a new global history, capitalism is an inescapable vibe—responsible for everything, everywhere, all at once.

Capitalism: A Global History by Sven Beckert has an overall rating of Rave based on 4 book reviews.

In a new global history, capitalism is an inescapable vibe—responsible for everything, everywhere, all at once.

“Intelligence contractors, like Palantir, offer platforms that synthesize, process, and surface decision-relevant information. Palantir's workflow includes an integrated suite of A.I. models selected from a drop-down menu. As one Palantir employee told me, “Claude is just the best, by far.” A human analyst might review signal intelligence to select military targets; Claude can do the same thing, only much faster and more efficiently.

A new book charts the creation of a secretive system that automates warfare for the military. The progression from target identification to target destruction is four clicks.

When political candidates rehearse for campaign debates , they commonly cast a surrogate in the role of their rival.

A famous logic puzzle takes place on a mythical island divided between the knights, who never lie, and the knaves, who always do.

In “Biological War,” Annie Jacobsen imagines society collapsing from a man-made plague—part of a wave of such prophecies. But what do we miss when we try to predict the future?