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In Review : Cross Vision How the Crucifixion of Jesus Makes Sense of Old Testament Violence How the Crucifixion of Jesus Makes Sense of Old Testament Violence Fortress Buy from IndieBound Buy from Amazon "All my life I’ve tried to believe God was as beautiful as Jesus reveals him to be . . . but I…

We are surrounded by hysteria about the future of artificial intelligence and robotics—hysteria about how powerful they will become, how quickly, and what they will do to jobs. I recently saw a story in ­ MarketWatch that said robots will take half of today’s jobs in 10 to 20 years . It even had a…

I n 2013, a British man was arrested for planning to kidnap and brutally murder a soldier. The suspect, who had a criminal history, had posted messages on social media in support of violent jihad. In a search of his residence, the police had found a bag containing a hammer, a kitchen knife and a map…

O n June 14, 2014, the State Council of China published an ominous-sounding document called "Planning Outline for the Construction of a Social Credit System". In the way of Chinese policy documents, it was a lengthy and rather dry affair, but it contained a radical idea. What if there was a national…

You have thoughts, feelings and desires. You remember your past and imagine your future. Sometimes you make a special effort, other times you are content to simply relax. All of these things are true about you. But do you exist? Is your sense of self an illusion, or is there something in the world…

Evening, August 22nd, 2017, a convention center in Phoenix. It’s Donald Trump ’s true coming-out party as an insane person. It looks like the same old Trump up there on the stage: same boxy blue suit, same obligatory flag pin and tangerine combover, same too-long reddish power tie swinging below his…

The tripartite house at the site of Gurga Chiya in Iraqi Kurdistan. September 2017.Photograph: Mary Shepperson/courtesy of University College London I should be in the Kurdish region of Iraq right now knee-deep in Late Chalcolitic archaeology, but instead I’m watching Bake Off in Crewe. The autumn…

A military officer at the D.M.Z. This summer, the prospect of a nuclear confrontation between the United States and North Korea, the most hermetic power on the globe, entered a realm of psychological calculation reminiscent of the Cold War. Photograph by Max Pinckers for The New Yorker 1. The Madman…

For two decades now, Apple has been fighting a battle between attention and disregard. In 1997, when Steve Jobs returned as interim CEO, the company was a struggling maker of personal computers with limited market share. Then came the iMac, a Mac computer people finally wanted to own again. Then the…

In defence of open floor plans for engineering I’m a sworn enemy of doors, and always have been. At Trilogy, my first real job out of school, I refused to be confined to my cubicle and I’d take my laptop to sit with others, creating, in effect, my own personal rotation program. When I realized that…

From Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), Kara Walker. Liza Bramlett was a slave. She lived on a cotton plantation in the Mississippi Delta, during the 19th century. White men raped her repeatedly throughout her life. They traded her body amongst themselves in exchange for calves…

Economic View Credit Minh Uong/The New York Times A pathbreaking new study of online conversations among economists describes and quantifies a workplace culture that appears to amount to outright hostility toward women in parts of the economics profession. Alice H. Wu, who will start her doctoral…

More rewarding than menial labor. leolintang/Thinkstock In the wake of the Great Recession, young men have become something of a conundrum for economists. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics say that men between the ages of 21 and 30 show reduced labor force participation compared with older…

I spent much of my childhood in a north-western suburb of Adelaide that was, for decades, predominantly white and working class. Waves of eastern European migrants formed the foundation of its initial settlement throughout the 1950s and 1960s, before it underwent a significant transformation in the…

Outside contributors' opinions and analysis of the most important issues in politics, science, and culture. James Damore, the man fired by Google last year after he wrote a memo arguing that there may be biological reasons why women are underrepresented at Google and other tech companies, has sued…

Listen and subscribe to The Atlantic’s podcast, Radio Atlantic. This week: Kurt Andersen on How America Lost Its Mind. Click here for more . On August 5, Philip Zelikow delivered the following keynote address at the annual meeting of the Aspen Strategy Group, a discussion forum for experts and…

Rob Goldiez, co-founder of Hirebotics, configures a robot at Tenere Inc. in Dresser, Wis. (Ackerman + Gruber/For The Washington Post) The workers of the first shift had just finished their morning cigarettes and settled into place when one last car pulled into the factory parking lot, driving past…

Image by Daniel C. Richardson Amid endless debates concerning same-sex relationships and same-sex marriage, one biblical passage is often curiously absent. In 1 Corinthians 7, Paul reflects on the merits of married and single life. If unmarried persons struggle with sexual self-control, he says,…

Quantum theory contradicts common sense. Everyone who has even a modest interest in physics quickly gets this message. The quantum view of reality, we’re often told, is as a madhouse of particles that become waves (and vice versa), and that speak to one another through spooky messages that defy…

A ‘market’ is an economic mechanism, distinct from the state and primarily geared for profit and is thereby essentially capitalist. This is an extremely common assumption, but fortunately it is wrong. We have been too conditioned by Adam Smith’s effort to define human nature as the desire to ‘truck,…

What happened in the parliamentary elections last week was the political equivalent of the collapse of a financial bubble. For two years, practically everyone outside the circle of Jeremy Corbyn's own supporters has been insisting the man was “unelectable”. He was an extremist, a well-meaning…

Cloak and dagger: from two permissions to complete control of the UI feedback loop Fratantonio et al., IEEE Security and Privacy 2017 If you’re using Android, then ‘cloak and dagger’ is going to make for scary reading. It’s a perfect storm of an almost undetectable attack that can capture passwords,…

Toby Melville/TPX/Reuters British Prime Minister Theresa May on her way to Buckingham Palace to ask the Queen’s permission to form a minority government, London, June 9, 2017 To understand the sensational outcome of the British election, one must ask a basic question. What happens when phony…

Op-Ed Contributor How Tinder Could Take Back the White House Carnaby Street in London. Credit Oli Scarff/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images By now, you may have heard that young voters were critical in the election in the United Kingdom earlier this month, helping deliver embarrassing losses to the…

Before asking the question of how technology can affect democracy, I’m going to ask: What is democracy for ? In a developed, post-industrial country at the start of the twenty-first century, one of the main functions of a democratic political system is to help us collectively manage living in a…

B ackstage at the concert hall, I interview Brian Brown, the head of the National Organization for Marriage. I ask him about Father Josiah’s Islamic reference, which seemed to suggest that people might want to kill my kind. “Father Josiah wouldn’t hurt a fly!” he assures me. Brown, raised as a…

Monday 22 May 2017 3:55pm Share Gregory K. Hillis is Associate Professor of Theology at Bellarmine University. On 8 December of last year, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, Pope Francis released his message for the celebration of the Fiftieth World Day of Peace. It was titled,…

This article is the subject of legal complaints on behalf of Cambridge Analytica LLC and SCL Elections Limited. “The connectivity that is the heart of globalisation can be exploited by states with hostile intent to further their aims.[…] The risks at stake are profound and represent a fundamental…

1. W e are late to church and sneak along the outer edge of the sanctuary, the pine floors creaking under our careful steps. I slide into the pew next to my husband. My leg brushes against him, this man I love, a man who recently lost faith in God. I scan the bulletin and try to find my place. My…

Ellul and the Election In his 1960 essay, “Christian Faith & Social Reality,”Jacques Ellul writes that Christians should join movements in which more orless everyone is involved – movements for peace, to address poverty, to improvethe conditions of employment for the working class – but encourages…

Why does the practice of mathematics often fall short of our ideals and hopes? How can the deeply human themes that drive us to do mathematics be channeled to build a more beautiful and just world in which all can truly flourish? I gave this Retiring Presidential Address at the AMS-MAA Joint Winter…

My words appear to leave you cold; Poor babes, I will not be your scolder: Reflect, the Devil, he is old, To understand him, best grow older. – Goethe, Faust Part 2 , lines 6815–18 Say what you like about Satan, but he does at least give a fair price for souls. Faust got 24 years of worldly…

S-Town podcast’s executive producer Julie Snyder with host and reporter Brian Reed.Photograph: Elise Bergerson M y daughter makes podcasts, and I spoke to her about how disturbing I found S-Town , the seven-part series from the This American Life team that has become a global phenomenon. I found it…

Second Public Lecture on Analytic Theology. Cluster Group at University of Navarra. 'Eternity, Simplicity, and Divine Presence' by Eleonore Stump. April 20, 2015. Room 03, Amigos Building.