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Cannes: festival of freedom
The Cannes film festival remains as free spirited as ever.
Agnès Poirier
May 27, 2023
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Notebooks are snapshots from our writers, reflecting on current affairs and underappreciated aspects of culture and history.
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Henry Kissinger at 100: a century of service
Henry Kissinger has served his adopted nation for more than half a century and made a significant and positive contribution to America’s role in the world.
Thomas A. Schwartz
May 26, 2023
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The Ancient Forerunner of AI
The myth of Talos gave us the original AI dilemma.
Adrienne Mayor
May 24, 2023
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Victor Frankenstein’s bad habits
Mary Shelley's legendary creation Victor Frankenstein symbolises modernity’s overweening ambition and potential for self-destruction.
Patricia Fara
May 24, 2023
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Amis the Unadaptable
A spectacularly cinematic writer, Martin Amis has only now found the screen treatment he deserved.
Alexander Larman
May 23, 2023
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Learning the Ukrainian Way of War
Ukraine's approach to the offensive is likely to be intelligent and precise.
Rob Johnson
May 23, 2023
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The Spying Game Will Find a Use for AI
Spies have always applied the latest technology to their craft: Artificial Intelligence will be no different.
David Omand
May 22, 2023
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Karel Čapek’s robots took on a life of their own
The Czech playwright’s invention perfectly distilled twentieth-century anxieties about modernity, science, and technology.
Anna Parker
May 22, 2023
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ChatGPT: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
First as tragedy, then as farce. That’s the history of Silicon Valley.
Andrew Keen
May 22, 2023