Douglas McLennan

Ireland started with artists because they were an easy case: chronically underpaid, culturally necessary, structurally abandoned by the market, and the political argument was winnable. But the experiment proves something more general: unconditional income produces more output, not less, generates return and not just expenditure, and retains people in socially valuable work who would otherwise give up.

Maybe you've seen the video below this week? It features the latest robotics by a Chinese robotics firm harnessed for a demonstration at this year's Spring Festival Gala. Give...

Here's the paradox: the current political assault on institutions may be the best thing that ever happened to the case for rebuilding them.

In the space of a week, we have lost two significant and iconic American institutions. But the shuttering of the Kennedy Center and the decimation of the Washington Post are neither isolated nor unrelated.

Here’s the tell: since when does a licensor pay the licensee?

Are you aware the extent that AI has taken over how much of what you see and hear online?

If web users can get news from chatbots directly, why should they visit websites? Since Google introduced its AI summaries atop search results, publishers have reported traffic has dropped sharply. And this is only the beginning.

The unusual structure of this storytelling telescopes the narrative, underlining the conflicting trajectories of the couple’s lives.

Maybe Trump is right and there are enough Americans who for whatever reasons are invested in tearing down American norms and see in him as the avatar to do it. Harris is the clear alternative, appealing to our better nature.

Though Bernstein certainly fit the image of maestro in the popular imagination and was unquestionably the most famous American conductor of his day, he was oddly something of an artifact himself.