James O’Sullivan lectures in the School of English and Digital Humanities at University College Cork, where his work explores the intersection of technology and culture. At first glance, the feed ...

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Aryn Baker is a Rome-based foreign correspondent who has spent the past 25 years writing about the intersection of climate change, conflict, migration, science, culture and politics around the world.

Chidi Nwaubani grew up in London with the vestiges of colonial plunder all around him. It’s all stolen — these people are thieves, his mother would say of the jewels in the Queen’s crown or other ...

John Last is a freelance journalist and former foreign correspondent living outside Ottawa, Canada. MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — The Monastery of the Great Lavra is a fortified village perched on a sloping ...

Alfonso Martinez Arias is ICREA Research Professor in the department of systems bioengineering of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. This essay is adapted from his upcoming book, “The Master ...

Zeve Sanderson is the executive director of NYU’s Center for Social Media & Politics, and a research affiliate at the NYU Center on Technology Policy. Scott Babwah Brennen is the director of the ...

Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, where he is also a Faculty Fellow of ...

Karen Bakker (1971-2023) was a professor at the University of British Columbia, a Guggenheim fellow and a 2022-23 fellow of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. On a chilly morning in ...

Francesca Bria is the initiator of the EuroStack Project, an innovation economist and a leading expert in digital policy. She is a professor at University College London’s Institute for Innovation and ...

Nathan Gardels is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. He is also the co-founder of and a senior adviser to the Berggruen Institute. From the time of Thucydides and the Peloponnesian Wars through ...