The Multi-Trillion-Dollar Battle for Your Attention Is Built on a Lie

Dalin had kept a secret from his competitors, his fans and even his own team as he embarked on a voyage that would take several months. He was battling gastrointestinal cancer. At first, he wondered if he would survive. Then he wondered if he could race.

The opportunity for everyday folks to enhance their lives and work with AI has never been greater, but it can take experimentation and persistence

It’s a $60 billion bet on the future of entertainment—and it’s up to the Imagineers, in their hidden warehouses, to make it work

The philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s latest book looks beyond happiness as the goal of a well-lived life. Related book WSJ Review

A growing community is building a life with large language models. Related: is A.I. a mass-delusional event?

The Atlantic ’s staffers on the books they share—again and again

Listen to interview with director of the current documentary film View the trailer “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

Good morning! So, how about today we do a partial "verifying sync." This would affirm and acknowledge we're in agreement on a variety of primary topics of our past conversations? Specifically, to assure we've"solid sync"on these five topics: 1) Pantakinesis™ , and its foundational three components (•all-encompassing, •motion, •vanishing points), is presently an optimal defining description of reality; 2) the Universal Holophren™ is a framework for the better understanding of

Revisiting the year’s noteworthy nonfiction.

More people are resolving to spend less time on their phones and social media, and research suggests there are health benefits

In an age of endless low-quality information, it’s time to fight our instinct to seek out and absorb all we can. It takes practice.

On a rainy day in Detroit, a Ford engineer got confused, then soaked—and inspired. It took decades before he got any credit.

A colloquial translation of Paradiso might make people actually read it. “Nowhere in poetry,” T. S. Eliot wrote about this last scene , “has experience so remote from ordinary experience been expressed so concretely.” Excerpt: "Now is a good time to pick up Paradiso. Some readers might be looking for salvation along the way, but the message is even more universal than that. When the world feels out of control, you can still use your imagination to ascend above the noise, th

More young partygoers are worrying about looking goofy on camera, prompting some artists to wonder if social media is killing dance.

Being a reader means cultivating a relationship with the world that, by most standards, can seem pointless and counterproductive. Excerpt : "If we want to keep reading from going extinct, then the best thing we could do is tell young people what so many great writers readily admit: Literature doesn’t make you a better citizen or a more successful person. A passion for reading can even make life more difficult. And you don’t cultivate a passion for the sake of democracy. You d

Galaxy Brain ’s Charlie Warzel joins David Frum to discuss how our online information became so untrustworthy and how we can fight back. Plus: Why America’s Founding Fathers would be appalled by Trump 250 years later, and Edward Berenson’s The Trial of Madame Caillaux .

A Bizarre, Challenging Book More People Should Read: The true pleasure of literature can be found in demanding works such as Your Name Here , by Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff.

Joseph Campbell argued that nearly every myth can be boiled down to a hero’s journey. Was he right?

Going to the movies with my dad