A.I. and Vibecoding Helped Me to Create My Own Software
I am not a coder. I can’t write a single line of Python, JavaScript or C++. Except for a brief period in my teenage years whe...
Do you play a mean pinball?
WHEN MOST people think of pinball, if they think of it at all, they probably imagine an old, unloved machine, starved of coin...
Erotic writing is becoming more explicit
START WITH the nipples. The lover does in “Mistress and Mother”, a steamy romantic novel from the 1990s. Though, since it was...
America’s self-isolating president
IF AMERICA MUST be ruthless, at least let it be brilliant. That is the prayer that defenders of President Donald Trump must m...
Could political upheaval hit Jordan next?
Jordanians came out in their tens of thousands to hail their king as a hero. On February 13th state television broadcast thei...
America has never had state media like it does today
When Elon Musk recently declared, “I am become meme,” he was selling himself short. He and his doings have indeed become endl...
America’s Gen Z has got religion
THE MEETING houses of the First Church in Cambridge, founded by Puritans, have been around for 400 years. George Washington w...
Ukraine has fended off Donald Trump, for the moment
After a painful negotiation, Ukraine is set to approve a deal with America to jointly exploit the beleaguered country’s miner...
Marian Turski, Who Refused to Forget the Holocaust, Dies at 98
Marian Turski, a Holocaust survivor who returned to his native Poland after World War II to give voice to fellow victims of t...
Designing babies
One of the greatest scandals in modern science began with a late-2010s advertisement for HIV-positive couples looking to have...