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Sophia Alvarez Boyd

Sophia Alvarez Boyd

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A Defense of a Liberal Arts Education in the Age of A.I.

A Defense of a Liberal Arts Education in the Age of A.I.

Making the case for a “useless” education.

21.05.2026 4

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Why China Isn’t Worried A.I. Will Replace Its Workers

Why China Isn’t Worried A.I. Will Replace Its Workers

The difference in perspectives between superpowers is shaping the race for A.I. dominance.

14.05.2026 10

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A Legendary Investor on How to Prevent America’s Coming ‘Heart Attack’

Why Ray Dalio is bearish on the U.S.

07.05.2026 10

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Why Are We Still Driving?

Confronting the weirdness of a Waymo future.

30.04.2026 10

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A Bitcoin Evangelist Tries to Convert Me

What the crypto currency promises that the dollar doesn’t.

23.04.2026 10

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How the Supreme Court Defeated Trump

A conservative court watcher explains why the president has failed to bend the judicial branch to his will.

16.04.2026 5

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How Far Will Trump Go in Iran?

I asked an Iran hawk what victory looks like now.

26.03.2026 30

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White Identity Is Galvanizing the Right

He wrote a book on anti-white bias. The White House noticed.

19.03.2026 60

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Is Claude Coding Us Into Irrelevance?

Dario Amodei shares his utopian — and dystopian — predictions for the near-term future of artificial intelligence.

12.02.2026 30

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A ‘Fringe Epidemiologist’ on What’s Wrong With Public Health

Jay Bhattacharya, the N.I.H. director, says authorities broke the public’s trust in the Covid era. Now it’s up to outsiders to restore it.

29.01.2026 30

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Understanding the Right’s Antisemitic Turn

It’s deeper than Nick Fuentes.

20.11.2025 10

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What Palantir Sees

The tech company’s C.T.O. on surveillance, A.I. and the future of war.

30.10.2025 50

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The Next Economic Bubble Is Here

OpenAI is worth more than Goldman Sachs. Here’s what that means for the economy.

23.10.2025 30

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Amy Coney Barrett Is Looking Beyond the Trump Era

The Supreme Court justice isn’t making decisions based on public opinion.

16.10.2025 10

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This Is Why America Is Losing to China

Our biggest adversary is waiting for the West to collapse.

06.09.2025 20

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