36 stories from The Atlantic
For decades, the media have chronicled a Hollywood mega-producer's reputation as a bully"and even praised him for it.
Ivo Van Hove's success shows how much American commercial theater relies on European state funding.
The Vatican Secret Archive isn't much use to modern scholars, because it's so inaccessible. Of those 53 miles, just a few millimeters' worth of pages have been scanned and made available onl…
Research on failure as a motivator is limited, though the evidence that does exist suggests that students can grow both from learning about the failures of other successful people and from e…
"After kicking things off with stirring origin movies like Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America: The First Avenger, the series has gradually started to examine the shaky underpinnings of its …
I've run a handful of races per year since my first 5K in 2008, and have done enough theme/costume runs to be used to seeing women (and occasionally men) in fluffy statement skirts"sometimes…
It's the first time since 1998 for a mass shift to the public domain of material protected under copyright. It's also the beginning of a new annual tradition: For several decades from 2019 o…
Violinist and Pulitzer jury member Regina Carter: "I just sat down and it was like wow. I just felt like what he had to say and how he would say it, you had to really sit down and think abou…
When I do concerts I often give talks to students. They get them together, and I talk to them in the afternoon, and we talk about music. Not too long ago one young fellow, he said, "Tell me …
As online learning extends its reach, though, it is starting to run into a major obstacle: There are undeniable advantages, as traditional colleges have long known, to learning in a shared p…
By putting its movies online immediately, the streaming service represents an existential threat to the French theater industry's business; the Cannes rule change is just the latter's mode o…
Outsiders have long been curious how admissions decisions are made. Most of the time this desire for transparency stems from a desire for fairness: Given how few acceptances elite institutio…
"VARK, which stands for 'Visual, Auditory, Reading, and Kinesthetic,' sorts students into those who learn best visually, through aural or heard information, through reading, or through 'kine…
"Consider the reaction of another listener: Jimmy Carter. In 1978, the president, not renowned as an especially sophisticated jazz listener, hosted a jazz festival at the White House. Most o…
Manipulated video will ultimately destroy faith in our strongest remaining tether to the idea of common reality. As Ian Goodfellow, a scientist at Google, told MIT Technology Review, "It'…
"The more sophisticated science becomes, the harder it is to communicate results. Papers today are longer than ever and full of jargon and symbols. They depend on chains of computer programs…
Emblemizing the split are author Roxane Gay ("[the show is] further normalizing Trump and his warped, harmful political ideologies") and comedian Sarah Silverman ("I like that Trumpers will …
Geoffrey C. Bunn argues that the history of the lie detector doubles as the history of an attempt to contend with the rise of mass culture: the machine, as a manifestation of a widespread de…
Nina Li Coomes: "In the film, the country is a plot device that creates a vague sense of unfamiliarity to move the story forward and explain away bizarre narrative elements. ... [In other wo…
Sure, the First Amendment prohibits the government from making a law "respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," but current case law on religious fr…
Since he took power from the Muslim Brotherhood in a coup in 2013, the number of journalists and activists in jail has spiked as dissent against his regime has been roundly crushed; ma…
The award to A Fantastic Woman, about a transgender waitress dealing with the death of her partner, "has been enough to rekindle debate over a gender-identity bill that had been lagging in C…
The feverish nature of the art market during the Second World War, and ever since, offers at least one straightforward reason for both the Nazi art theft itself and for why items have never …
The massive new study analyzes every major contested news story in English across the span of Twitter's existence"some 126,000 stories, tweeted by 3 million users, over more than 10 years"an…
"The knitting project has been a particularly fun one so far just because it ended up being a dialogue between this computer program and these knitters that went over my head in a lot of way…
