I think it’s fair to say that a lot of your work falls under the category of satire. And something that I’ve seen people talk about since 2016 is the ways in which satire has become more difficult in the Trump years because it seems hard to outdo the world. Is that something that you…
Jean Houston, a spellbinding figure in the human potential movement of the 1960s who used guided imagery to inspire unmoored suburbanites, burned-out executives and even Hillary Rodham Clinton, helping Mrs. Clinton conduct imaginary conversations at the White House with Eleanor Roosevelt, died on May 16 at her home in Ashland, Ore. She was 89. Her…
Robert Thurman, whose erudite, exuberant efforts to expand the West’s understanding of Tibetan Buddhism earned him a reputation as “the Dalai Lama’s man in America,” died on Tuesday at his home in Woodstock, N.Y. He was 84. His daughter, the actress Uma Thurman, confirmed the death. Widely considered the foremost expert on Tibetan Buddhism in…
When Pope Leo XIV presented a 42,300-word open letter to the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics on Monday, calling for protections against the rise of artificial intelligence, he was joined by Christopher Olah, a co-founder of Anthropic, which is one of the tech industry’s leading A.I. companies. As Leo urged corporate executives, government regulators and other…
