The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks. On September 22, 2024, a headline from CNN ...

In one month, the United States will undergo another one of its regularly programmed national psychodramas: a presidential election. It’s a mix of three p’s: personality, policy and power, with a ...

A Washington Post headline reads: “A big problem for young workers: 70- and 80-year-olds who won’t retire.” For the first time in history, reports Aden Barton, five generations are competing in the ...

There just are not a whole lot of larger-than-life heroes left in the US. I am not sure why, but perhaps putting it under a microscope robs most celebrity of its panache and leaves so many potential ...

[This piece is a continuation of a multi-part series. You can read Part 1 and Part 2 here.] The support of the Brazilian militias and the Neo-Pentecostal churches may have guaranteed Brazilian ...

Observers are increasingly sounding the alarm about artificial intelligence-driven military decision-making systems (AIMDS). AIMDS are instruments that employ AI methods to evaluate data, offer ...

Last Thursday, the front page of Le Monde featured a headline in its running commentary on the war in Ukraine: “Vladimir Putin assures that Russia is ready for negotiations with Kiev on the basis of ...

In 2006, Facebook launched its News Feed feature, sparking seemingly endless contentious public discourse on the power of the “social media algorithm” in shaping what people see online. Nearly two ...

The Mahabharata utterly baffled me as an innocent six-year-old. My mother had gifted me a (thankfully abridged) version of the Hindu epic for my birthday. It taunted me with baleful snippets of ...

The numbers are clear. The temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in November last year resulted in the release of 109 hostages. Compare that to Israeli military operations, which have managed ...

“Outside the Box” is Fair Observer’s regular column dedicated to exploring the world of artificial intelligence, which has already become part of our everyday experience, whether we notice it or not.

Determined, a new book by renowned Stanford University professor of primate behavior and neuroscience Robert M. Sapolsky, has catapulted the author into an ancient debate: whether humans have free ...