Wokeness ended my backroom Jeopardy! habit
A bootleg re-enactment of the game succumbed to petty drama
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Live-translation AirPods are the future
The guide babbles away and I stand here beaming – I understand every word
Michael Heath on 75 years at The Spectator
The magazine’s longtime cartoonist speaks
I’m a slave to my Apple Watch
Beware human-like tech
Prince Andrew finds refuge in video games
The disgraced former prince is living in digital exile
The cost of Zohran
Mayor Mamdani’s policies are guaranteed to wreck New York City
What Islam can teach us about AI
With both the djinn and AI, we encounter answers that sound true, feel true, but lead us miles off the path
3I, the interstellar object that’s baffling astronomers
Internet lunatics and hopped-up podcasters are spinning fantastic tales about an extraterrestrial spacecraft
How chess killed Danya Naroditsky
His passion for the game led to his suicide last month
The return of Erik Prince
The former head of Blackwater is becoming a prominent MAGA voice
Bill Gates and the rightward shift of the billionaires
The country’s tycoons are abandoning old orthodoxies with speed
Trump is being misled on Venezuela
He risks being bounced into an unpopular foreign war
Pope Leo is following in Francis’s footsteps
The new pope refuses to discipline bishops who move against traditionalists
Humans are more than just apes
Unlike chimps, we have an alarming willingess to believe what we’re told
Putin thinks time is on his side
He is now willing to stake all on victory in the field
Time for a reckoning on the 2020 election
The previous election was rife with anomalies
Why Thomas Sowell still matters
His aphoristic style fits the era of short attention spans
Is Donald Trump a game theorist?
There may be method to his madness
George Santos’s prison diary
Trump’s reprieve was a gift from God
King Charles will make a splash at US-250
As in 1976, the British royal family hopes to promote the ‘Special Relationship’