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How central bankers spend their time
How leaders allocate their limited time and attention is an important question in economics. This paper constructs and analyzes a novel data set covering the daily calendars of three Federal Reserve Chairs, Ben Bernanke,…
Emergent Ventures India, 20th cohort
Zahan Turel, a backend engineer and eighth-generation Zoroastrian priest from Surat, received a grant to digitize his community’s manuscripts and liturgical records before they are lost. Aditya Vijay, 17, is building For…
The most interesting way to look at Edward Said is to see the political and the literary as having always been conjoined
The most interesting way to look at Edward Said is to see the political and the literary as having always been conjoined
“What does it feel like to commune with AI spirits? It is a shot of caffeine. It is a dizzy spell. It is a download from the universe.”
“What does it feel like to commune with AI spirits? It is a shot of caffeine. It is a dizzy spell. It is a download from the universe.”
What happened to Scientific American? The political pendulum has swung back and forth, leaving a once hallowed magazine in shambles
What happened to Scientific American? The political pendulum has swung back and forth, leaving a once hallowed magazine in shambles
What made Cormac McCarthy a great writer? The sound of his prose, in its full excess and strangeness
What made Cormac McCarthy a great writer? The sound of his prose, in its full excess and strangeness
Historians have often created heroes, but few have themselves become one. Marc Bloch is the rare exception
Historians have often created heroes, but few have themselves become one. Marc Bloch is the rare exception
We’re in the midst of an attention crisis. All is disruption and distraction. John Berger saw it coming – and foresaw its consequences
We’re in the midst of an attention crisis. All is disruption and distraction. John Berger saw it coming – and foresaw its consequences
“Liberalism’s deepest grounding,” Judith Shklar writes, is the belief “that cruelty is an absolute evil”
“Liberalism’s deepest grounding,” Judith Shklar writes, is the belief “that cruelty is an absolute evil”
Howl at 70: “The last poem to hit the world with the impact of news and grip it with the tenacity of a pop song”
Howl at 70: “The last poem to hit the world with the impact of news and grip it with the tenacity of a pop song”