NotableWhat to read in our age of A.I. “There is too much money, some of it too untraceable, giving a small group of unelected people too much power over the people. That’s data politics.” — Tressie McMillan Cottom, an Opinion columnist I told my patient she’d never go home. I was wrong. “I realized I was functioning within a medical culture in which delivering a dire prognosis with certainty is seen as a positive and any softening feels like a failure. That thinking failed me and my patient that day.” — Daniela J. Lamas, a contributing Opinion writer What the Texas book list gets right. “As we become more diverse and less anchored in the Western tradition, what it means to be conversant in our culture changes as well.” — James Traub, the author of “The Cradle of Citizenship: How Schools Can Help Save Our Democracy” Spotlight
What Is the Future of America’s Past?Our columnist M. Gessen writes: This is how we decide who we are and who we want to be. ICYMIChristopher Nolan stared into Elon Musk’s soul. “Regeneration is hard. It requires seeing old values in new ways. It requires recognizing that a moral inheritance that has collapsed into cliché holds power in an age when it has been debased and forgotten. But it can be done. It needs to be done.” — Ezra Klein, an Opinion columnist More in OpinionIn Your WordsRe: “All This Staring at Our Faces Is Messing With Our Heads”
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