Skip Navigation
Steven Pinker
September 11, 2024
MagazineAlexander Zaitchik
The Machines Are Proving Ray Kurzweil Right—Sort Of
For decades, Kurzweil has been prophesying the unstoppable rise of AI and its eventual merging with human intelligence.
August 22, 2019
Evgeny Morozov
Jeffrey Epstein’s Intellectual Enabler
How did Epstein meet so many luminaries in the worlds of science and technology? It all might trace back to literary agent John Brockman.
March 19, 2018
MagazineSamuel Moyn
Hype for the Best
Why does Steven Pinker insist that human life is on the up?
March 3, 2011
Evgeny Morozov
e-Salvation
October 27, 2010
Noam Scheiber
The Semiotics of Crazy Eddie
June 29, 2010
Rochelle Gurstein
The Perils of Progress
October 5, 2008
Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker On How America Will Change
November 4, 2006
The New Republic Staff
Frame Game
October 16, 2006
George Lakoff
Defending Freedom
November 25, 2002
Simon Blackburn
Meet the Flintstones

Our Writers

Kate AronoffClimate & Energy
Matt FordLaw & The Courts
Melissa Gira GrantLGBTQ Rights
Jason LinkinsPower & Plutocracy
Timothy NoahPolitics & Economy
Malcolm FergusonBreaking News
Ellie Quinlan HoughtalingBreaking News
Edith OlmstedBreaking News
Hafiz RashidBreaking News
Greg SargentPolitics & Democracy
Grace SegersCongress & Elections
Alex ShephardPolitics & Media
Heather Souvaine HornClimate Change
Michael TomaskyPolitics & Ideas
About The New Republic’s history