Kate Crawford, a research professor of communication at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, warned a crowd during a 2017 session at SXSW about the harm of artificial intelligence to... Read More

At Life's Edge Lesley When I sit beside people as they take their final breaths and hold their hands, I feel their body softening, their pulses fading. When they recede from the world, I can... Read More

“Sometimes I think I have felt everything I am ever going to feel. And from here on out, I am not going to feel anything new — just lesser versions of what I have already... Read More

I’ve always harbored a nagging suspicion that “Seinfeld” was never really about nothing — that beneath its deadpan humor and insistence on moral vacancy, it was, in fact, a deeply moral act of parody –... Read More

It is typical to treat ignorance as a moral liability in that one can either be culpable for their ignorance, or their ignorance can mitigate blame. In either case, ignorance is to be excused, managed... Read More

I’ve been watching stories about serial killers for years. Not because I’m fascinated by blood, but because I’ve always wondered what could awaken such darkness inside a person. I even have an encyclopedia of serial... Read More

The Threshold of Crime There is a line between what is legal and what is right, and history tells us that line moves. There was a time when tossing tea into the harbor was an... Read More