This week, Time magazine’s editors were embarrassed when they incorrectly identified Evelyn Waugh as a…
…female writer. But it’ll be even worse next week when they present their cover story about America’s first female President…
…Barbara Obama.
- Peggy Noonan thinks some Americans need to stop demanding equal rights.
-
Justice Scalia worked vigorously to make America straight again.
- Edward Luce considers the “hostile takeover” of the Republican Party.
- Political scientist Joe Uscinski considers the meaning of conspiracy theories.
- Conspiracists just went on a seven-day cruise called “Conspira-Sea.”
- The first aliens we meet may be AI rather than ETs.
- Machine superintelligence could overwhelm the human kind.
- DNA databases unsurprisingly have wide-ranging ramifications.
- Mark Zuckerberg wants Virtual Reality to be a key element of Facebook.
- The “Alden staRRcar” personal transport system was a 1950s dream.
- The President’s Economic Report looks at immigration, R&D and robotics.
- Nathaniel Popper reports on a wave of automation likely to awe Wall Street.
- By 2035, you may be employed as a remote-controlled vehicle operator.
- Boston Dynamics’ robot Atlas takes another big step forward.
- “Ground Drones” are set to make trial deliveries in America and England.
- A floating Venusian city may be preferable to a Mars colony.
- In 1967, Oriana Fallaci and Norman Mailer, two titanic egos, conversed.
- Daniel Mendelsohn evaluates A.O. Scott’s Better Living Through Criticism.
- If you miss humor magazines, read the excellent American Bystander.
- George “Doctor Feelgood” Nichopoulos, Elvis Presley’s “pain reliever,” died.
- Las Vegas is the least likely great American city.
- Old Print Article: A shadowy figure at Aaron Burr’s deathbed. (1895)
- Old Print Article: Grover Cleveland was a hangman. (1912)
- A brief note from 1870 about an execution club.
- A brief note from 1889 about loggers eating ants.
- A brief note from 1869 about ice velocipedes.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.