How to Survive and Thrive in the AI Apocalypse
The ironic result of the triumph of the machine may be the creation of an ecosystem in which supra-rational gnostic appeals flourish.
Maybe Even Build a Boat
John Ruskin said, “Lay a brick level in its mortar, or take a straight shaving from a plank, and you’ll have learned a multitude of things that the words of man can never tell.”
Inside Out and Outside In
Posted on April 23, 2024
in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration/Albert Camus, Shutterstock; broken windows photograph, Christian Gafenesch via Unsplash.
Camus embodied an existence that was itself conflicted, caught between the vectors of history and lived experience.
What Will America Look Like After a Second Trump Term?
Trump is a man for our moment. Both that man and moment are less authoritarian than anarchic.
Facing It
Reading words is hard enough for me without having to read faces too.
America’s Great Poet of Darkness
by
Ed Simon
Posted on March 26, 2024
in THR Web Features
Image: Robert Frost on his farm near Ripton, Vermont; Science History Images/Alamy Stock Photo.
If you read Frost for the snow, but don’t feel the cold, then you’re not really reading Frost
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