At seventy-three, the former front man of Talking Heads is still asking questions about what it means to be alive. But now he’s also offering ideas of hopefulness and service.
10/11/2025
On certain days, I’d cut school and head over to the Museum of Modern Art to dream awhile. This was in the mid-nineteen-seventies, and my high school—then called the High School for Performing Arts—was on West Forty-sixth Street.
“Palaver,” “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother),” “The Genius of Trees,” and “Flashes of Brilliance.”
Hours before Donald Trump met with Xi Jinping in South Korea last week, I sat down with Dani Rodrik, an economist at Harvard University, to talk about his new book, “Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World,” in which he discusses ways to create…
03/11/2025
Dario Amodei, the C.E.O. of the artificial-intelligence company Anthropic, has been predicting that an A.I. “smarter than a Nobel Prize winner” in such fields as biology, math, engineering, and writing might come online by 2027.
New York Harbor was once jammed with bivalves. Now the Billion Oyster Project seeds breakwaters with baby shellfish—not for eating but for purifying the local waters.
Cassie Donegan dreams of making it to Broadway. After seeing the new musical “The Queen of Versailles,” she got some tips from an old pal, the “Wicked” alum Kristin Chenoweth.
Both composers remain intriguing outliers, notable for the stubbornness with which they have held to their youthful convictions.
A story about a man trapped in an elevator for forty-one hours has just the right amount of anxiety.
02/11/2025
From the daily newsletter: Stephen Witt on what it’s like to go inside a data center, and what A.I. is doing to the power grid.
30/10/2025
A data center, which can use as much electricity as Philadelphia, is the new American factory, creating the future and propping up the economy. How long can this last?
27/10/2025
Research has linked the ability to visualize to a bewildering variety of human traits—how we experience trauma, hold grudges, and, above all, remember our lives.
