The Atheist Who Strangled Me
In which Sam Harris teaches me Brazilian jiu-jitsu and explains why violence is like rebirth
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In which Sam Harris teaches me Brazilian jiu-jitsu and explains why violence is like rebirth
A trip to the Iranian resort island of Kish illuminates the pressures, limits, and strange consequences of economic sanctions.
Forget online surveys and dinnertime robo-calls. A consulting firm called ReD is at the forefront of a new trend in market research, treating the everyday lives of consumers as a subject worthy of social-science scrutiny. On behalf of its corporate clients, ReD will uncover your deepest needs, fears, and desires.
Way out in the desert, at the Nevada Test Site, a certain sort of traveler can confront strange traces of catastrophe (and tomfoolery).
Our correspondent teaches Libya’s budding reporters the ABC’s of ethics and objectivity—with mixed results.
Does great wealth bring fulfillment? An ambitious study by Boston College suggests not. For the first time, researchers prompted the very rich—people with fortunes in excess of $25 million—to speak candidly about their lives. The result is a surprising litany of anxieties: their sense of isolation, their worries about work and love, and most of all, their fears for their children.
Incarceration in America is a failure by almost any measure. But what if the prisons could be turned inside out, with convicts released into society under constant electronic surveillance? Radical though it may seem, early experiments suggest that such a science-fiction scenario might cut crime, reduce costs, and even prove more just.
Witches are overwhelming the courts in the Central African Republic. And that may be a good thing.
In Qom, the site of Iran’s secret uranium-enrichment facility, the Islamic Revolution remains as strong as ever.
Our correspondent makes a pilgrimage to Bob Dylan's hometown in search of the source of his bizarre accent.
As the threat of global warming grows more urgent, a few scientists are considering radical—and possibly extremely dangerous—schemes for reengineering the climate by brute force. Their ideas are technologically plausible and quite cheap. So cheap, in fact, that a rich and committed environmentalist could act on them tomorrow. And that’s the scariest part.
