Art and Culture

Maybe you’ve seen the video below this week? It features the latest robotics by a Chinese robotics firm harnessed for a demonstration at this year’s Spring Festival Gala. Give it a minute. I’ll wait.…
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For a quarter of a century, visitors to the UK’s national museums and galleries have enjoyed universal free entry to see permanent collections.The policy, introduced by the New Labour government in 2001, has been widely credited with…
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The humanities are getting smaller, and they’re thinking smaller, too.It is no well-kept secret that the humanities are in crisis. Enrollment numbers make this evident: the proportion of humanities degrees halved nationwide from 1966 to…
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Every January, thousands of readers log on to Goodreads, Instagram or TikTok and make the same declaration: this is the year I read 50 books. Or 75. Or 100. Screenshots of spreadsheets circulate, templates for tracking pages and…
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This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here.ChatGPT and food-delivery droids came to my campus at roughly the same time, in the 2022–23 academic year.…
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The recent tragedies on the streets of Minnesota’s Twin Cities have reignited the discourse about the uncanny prescience of Tony Gilroy‘s Andor. The well-documented killings of Minneapolis residents, Renée Good and Alex Pretti, by…
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The boundaries between fact and fiction are becoming increasingly blurred. And nowhere more so than in the film industry. The recent promotional tour for Wicked: For Good became a show in itself almost from the get-go. Basically, it was…
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