No Ghost in the Machine
Artificial intelligence isn’t as intelligent as you think
By Mark Halpern
No Ghost in the Machine
Artificial intelligence isn’t as intelligent as you think
By Mark Halpern
ARTICLES
The Uncertainty Principle
In an age of profound disagreements, mathematics shows us how to pursue truth together
By Cristopher Moore and John Kaag
For Richer, For Poorer
A Jewish immigrant married a Gilded Age scion. They worked together for social justice until they didn’t.
By Adam Hochschild
Peggy’s War
A pioneering American journalist traveled the world while fighting her own battles at home
By Pamela D. Toler
My Hairy Past
Shoulder length or longer, my mane was about my looks, yes, but also about the need for justice
By David Owen
The Uncertainty Principle
In an age of profound disagreements, mathematics shows us how to pursue truth together
By Cristopher Moore and John Kaag
For Richer, For Poorer
A Jewish immigrant married a Gilded Age scion. They worked together for social justice until they didn’t.
By Adam Hochschild
Peggy’s War
A pioneering American journalist traveled the world while fighting her own battles at home
By Pamela D. Toler
My Hairy Past
Shoulder length or longer, my mane was about my looks, yes, but also about the need for justice
By David Owen
DEPARTMENTS
editor's note
tuning up
poetry
Five Poems
Getting In, Daylilies, Funeral of a Bumblebee, Song for Jacqueline, and Little Iliad
By A. E. Stallings
Negative Space 
Philip Larkin was middle aged at birth and came into his post-imperial world dressed in spectacles and quiet clothing. ...
By George Bradley
fiction
Solstice
We couldn’t advertise our grief, lest, years from now, friends and family would watch us sideways, waiting for an explosion from the bomb that never went off.
By David James Poissant
commonplace book
Book essay
Searching for Amos Oz in Jerusalem
The acclaimed novelist, who died in 2018, translated Israeli reality
By Randy Rosenthal
book reviews
Image Was Everything
A new biography of the seminal pop artist of the 20th century
By Meryle Secrest
