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November 27, 2023
…dance. The study authors introduce a test called “Thinking for Doing,” which seeks to understand whether AI models can, through programming and deep learning strategies, choose appropriate actions in a variety of social…
November 21, 2023
Thirty years ago, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D., N.Y.) wrote a seminal essay titled “Defining Deviancy Down.” He argued that Americans had “become accustomed to alarming levels of crime…
November 17, 2023
…ability of many young men to develop the skills, ambition, and work ethic that would enable them to thrive in the twenty-first century economy. The dangers of these limbic products…
November 14, 2023
…as intractable pathologies. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then New York senator, said at one public hearing on juvenile violence in 1993, “There is nothing you’ll do of any consequence, except start…
November 11, 2023
…a family “just needs help, such as access to child care assistance, mental health counseling or concrete resources,” Commissioner Jess Dannhauser announced at a press conference in mid-October. The revised…
November 9, 2023
…and reasonable” when they argued that “any substantial influx of the poor carries the danger of crime and decay,” Cuomo wrote. “Those blacks” in Queens’ Hollis “fortunate to have homes…
October 27, 2023
…Mills to Robert Bork and Barbara Jordan, whose ideas illuminate the larger transformations Leonhardt describes. The book’s argument belongs to a genre, reconsiderations of neoliberalism, that’s somewhat familiar by now…
October 27, 2023
…of men who end up becoming fathers and forging day-in-day-out relationships with their children. Brad Wilcox, a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia and director of the National…
October 18, 2023
…created. There’s a hitch to all of this, because, well, that’s the nature of reality. Every new benefit comes with a price tag. Human beings evolved under circumstances of scarcity and danger….
October 13, 2023
…normalized drug use as part of daily life. There may have been a time when the dangers of marijuana were exaggerated, but that is no longer true. The Centers for…