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Françoise Hardy and the Unanswered Question

by Vincent Ercolano
Posted on June 25, 2024 in THR Web Features
Image: Françoise Hardy in London, 1968; Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix/Alamy Stock Photo.

Au revoir, Françoise Hardy.

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Chatbots and the Problems of Life

by Alan Jacobs
Posted on June 18, 2024 in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration.

I don’t like this collapse of trust; I don’t like being in a technological arms race with my students.

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AI as Self-Erasure

by Matthew B. Crawford
Posted on June 11, 2024 in THR Web Features
Image: Piranka/iStock.

Liberal public culture is a culture of polite separation.

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When the Mind’s Eye Is Blind

by Joshua T. Katz
Posted on June 4, 2024 in THR Web Features
Image: Photograph by Roman Kraft via Unsplash.

I have a very hard time believing that most people can see things.

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Creativity in the Age of Crush

by Leann Davis Alspaugh
Posted on May 30, 2024 in THR Web Features
Image: YouTube screenshots from Apple’s “Crush” ad [left] and Samsung’s “Uncrush” ad [right].
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Through the Rent, Eternity Enters

by Abram Van Engen, Christian Wiman, and Marilyn Nelson
Posted on May 22, 2024 in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration; clockwise from top: T.S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats, Richard Wilbur, Osip Mandelstam, George Washington Carver, Norman MacCaig, Joy Harjo.

You read a poem and it awakens you to something that you already knew.

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