A Dark Belarusian Satire
Alindarka’s Children captures the depths of grief and frustration that have been building up for decades under the deceptively placid surface of Belarusian life.
June 10, 2021 issue
Cummings’s Last Stand
The political adviser who helped Boris Johnson ride the Brexit wave into power has turned on him over the government’s pandemic record. But whose nemesis will it prove?
May 25, 2021
Open Letter: Release Otero Alcántara
The Cuban government is detaining the artist solely for expressing his ideas through his art and for his nonviolent defense of human rights.
May 26, 2021
Sentenced by Algorithm
Computer programs used to predict recidivism and determine prison terms have a high error rate, a secret design, and a demonstrable racial bias.
June 10, 2021 issue
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Going Unconscious
“Experimental results from an ever-widening range of psychological functions tell the same story,” Jonathan Miller wrote in 1995, in an essay exploring the history of hypnosis and theories of the automatic self, “that what we are conscious of is a relatively small proportion of what we know and that we are the unwitting beneficiaries of a mind that is, in a sense, only partly our own.”
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