Richard's Pretension

When it was in theaters last summer, Hotel Artemis slipped under my radar, which is not particularly difficult to do. It bypassed the atte...

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a data scientist who writes for The New York Times . His NYT bestselling book is Everybody Lies: What the Inter...

I spent much of last weekend on Mars – well…in two novels set on Mars. I have little to say about Thin Air by Richard Morgan beyond tha...

The large majority of my friends, ranging from millennials to seniors, are single whether never-married, divorced, or widowed. Not all, bu...

Unlike some languages (notably French, which is governed by L'Académie française ), English does not have an official grammar or vocab...

2019, which arrives tomorrow, looks like an unreal date to me, as has every year since 2000. I grew up when “the 21 st century” meant th...

In my younger days articles in newspapers and magazines regularly appeared in December remarking about the high rate of murders and suicide...