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In the two-thousands, the philosopher of science Peter Godfrey-Smith began snorkelling off the coast of his native Sydney, ...

The founder of OpenAI and the designer behind the iPhone are teaming up on a gadget that they promise to ship out “faster ...

Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading,” argues that notions get taken up not because of their virtue but because of their ...

Leaders of the nation’s most powerful evangelical church try to cast women out of the ministry, igniting struggles over power ...

The Iranian director’s Palme d’Or-winning thriller, “It Was Just an Accident,” set the tone for a festival defined by dramas ...

By forcing rigid definitions of sex across all federal agencies, Republicans are undermining the administrative state’s ...

Screenshots of Hinge conversations that were insanely weird. I’d prefer a dick pic to a shot of the back of a man’s head, to ...

A new biography traces the ascent of a man who made the postwar right at once urbane, combative, and camera-ready.

The seventy-six-year-old theatre diva, famed and feared for her salty bravado, dishes on Hal Prince, her non-friendship with ...

Part memoir, part exposé, part cookbook, “The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club” reveals the hidden lives of women dissidents in the ...

The first season of Nathan Fielder’s mind-bending show seemed to exhaust all possibilities for its conceit. But the second is ...