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Volunteers at the Central Texas Food Bank. | Central Texas Food Bank

Even when the pandemic ends, food banks will still be in high demand.

'No one’s getting ready to pop open a bottle of champagne yet.'

To the Editors: Readers of Noah Feldman’s insightful article on the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s influence on the current Supreme Court [“The Battle Over Scalia’s Legacy,” NYR, December 17, 2020] might appreciate a factoid regarding Justice Neil Gorsuch’s opposition to the Chevron deference granting significant deference to agency interpretation of statutory authority. Chevron v. National […]

We are all Veblenians now. Our understanding of the way people’s acquisitions and activities advertise their superiority—not least in an era of Facebook show-offs and Instagrammable lives—has roots in work that the economist and social theorist Thorstein Veblen published over a century ago. Behavioral economics finds a precursor in Veblen. So does evolutionary psychology. Our […]

In 1917, when Europe seemed to lie in ruins, Max Weber wrote an influential essay with the misleadingly dull title “Parliament and Government in a Reconstructed Germany.” In it he drew attention to the outbreak of “Caesarism” in nineteenth-century Europe, taking Otto von Bismarck as the prime example of a modern Caesar for Germany (and […]

Just after Frank O’Hara’s untimely death in 1966, John Ashbery made a case for the poet’s enduring significance. In spite of only modest success during his lifetime, O’Hara was “the first modern poet” to pose a vital question: “Can art do this?” O’Hara’s and Ashbery’s different ways of answering that question have changed what counts […]

The historian Steve Mason has called The Jewish War by Flavius Josephus “perhaps the most influential non-biblical text of Western history.”* This may seem a surprising choice. Written in Greek around 75 AD, the war it describes—the Judaean revolt against Roman rule that began in 66 and largely ended in 70 after huge losses, including […]

In Fernanda Melchor’s story “La Casa del Estero,” from her collection Aquí no es Miami (2018), a group of friends spend the night in “la casa del diablo” (the devil’s house), an abandoned property near their hometown in the state of Veracruz that the locals believe to be haunted. Toward the end of the night, […]

To the extent that the German writer Peter Weiss is known in the US, it is for his verse play The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade. Marat/Sade debuted in West Berlin in 1964 and quickly became […]

hello to the unimaginative and dim ways of my kin, helloto the bad lot we are, to the women mean and plucked, and to the men on the broken steps who beat down the roses with their hosings,to the nights that rose black as an inked plate, into which an acid bit stars— puckered, tight, […]

One of the most beloved episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation is called “Darmok.” On stardate 45047.2, the crew of the USS Enterprise, led by Captain Jean-Luc Picard, encounters an advanced alien species called the Tamarians with whom it is unable to communicate. Though the Tamarians’ words and syntax can be grasped, what they’re […]

Twenty-five years ago, at the end of my two-month rotation in psychiatry, Edinburgh Medical School delivered the results of our student assessments by posting three lists of names on a departmental notice board. It was a nerve-racking experience for all of us, who would learn of having passed or failed in full view of our […]

In 1772, aged twenty-nine, the English naturalist Joseph Banks gave up traveling abroad. He had sailed around the world with Captain James Cook on the Endeavour and had just returned from Iceland. That was enough. Apart from a short trip to the Netherlands in 1773, he stayed firmly on British soil for the rest of […]

Maggie O’Farrell’s moving historical novel Hamnet is a story of deep loss—the death of a child, struck down by an incomprehensibly virulent epidemic—and its impact upon a marriage that was already buckling under almost intolerable strain. The story’s surprise turn is that, though the grief-stricken wife succumbs for years to crippling depression and though the […]

Conspiracy theories can serve many functions. They may be tactical weapons wielded against political adversaries, or licenses for every form of revilement and victimization; they may be tools of induction into militant cadres or apocalyptic cults; they may offer seemingly reasoned justifications for already deeply held suspicions and animosities; they may provide entertainment in which […]

Great in concept, but there’s a limit to what Alexa can do on a phone

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On this week’s episode of What the Heck, MMA Fighting’s Mike Heck speaks with UFC bantamweight Rob Font (3:50) to recap his impressive first-round finish of Marlon Moraes at UFC Vegas 17 this past weekend, what the moment was like after the referee stopped the fight, his callout of TJ Dillahsaw, and thoughts on a potential matchup with fellow event winner Jose Aldo.

What is it about the Hunter Biden investigation that forces news organizations to run the other way?

This fall was a blizzard of hardware and console announcements from practically every major company, all timed to launch just before the holiday shopping season. Nvidia wowed us with new graphics cards. AMD hit the ground running with new processors and its own graphics cards. Intel’s Iris Xe integrated GPU was…

Where I live, it’s too warm out for a white Christmas. But in the deep ocean, it’s always snowing. I’m talking about marine snow, or flakes of biological debris like dirt, dead phytoplankton and algae, and even bits of fecal matter that shower down from higher waters. So festive!

Albion head coach Graham Potter admits there are no plans for Jayson Molumby.

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Tottenham got the lucky draw with Brentford while the Manchester sides have to play each other.

Get more ports with a single USB-C connection with one of these compact docks.

We have a coronavirus vaccine, but normal life is still some way off. In the meantime, here are the big issues facing us in the months ahead

Facebook Managers Trash Their Own Ad Targeting in Unsealed Remarks  The Intercept