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☆ Are Fears of A.I. and Nuclear Apocalypse Keeping You Up? Blame Prometheus.
  + stars: | 2023-10-21 | by ( A.O. Scott | More About A.O. Scott | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
The atomic bomb may be, for the soldiers and politicians, a powerful strategic tool in war and diplomacy. He snatched a spark of quantum insight from those divinities and handed it to Harry S. Truman and the U.S. Army Air Forces. (The notable exception is Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb and as such another potential Prometheus.) Like the original Prometheus, Oppenheimer survives his disgrace, and ends the movie as a flawed, haunted, regretful creature, carrying a flicker of inextinguishable, theoretical guilt. A.I., on the other hand, seems newly sprung from science fiction, and especially terrifying because we can’t quite grasp what it will become.
Persons: Oppenheimer, “ Oppenheimer, —, Oppenheimer wasn’t, Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrödinger, Werner Heisenberg, Harry S, Truman, ”, Edward Teller, von Neumann Organizations: U.S . Army Air Forces Locations: Hiroshima, Nagasaki
☆ He Dissected Trump. Now Michael Wolff Performs an Autopsy on Fox News.
  + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( A.O. Scott | More About A.O. Scott | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
A story of chaotic corporate stewardship and generational conflict unfolds in the shadow of a looming actuarial certainty. A gritty reboot of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” you might say. In Wolff’s view, playing the saga for laughs is a risky choice: “To treat the Fox phenomenon and the Murdoch family as a cultural confection ripe for comedy,” he writes, “may be dangerously close to liberal sacrilege.”Maybe. You could also argue that laughing at Fox News — and at Donald J. Trump, the subject of Wolff’s recent best-selling trilogy and a major offstage character in “The Fall” — has been a cherished liberal pastime for years. Not that Wolff, who likes to play peekaboo with his own ideological leanings, has anything but contempt for a media mainstream (The Times very much included) that he sees as imprisoned by soggy left-leaning sentiments.
Persons: Murdoch, Michael Wolff Michael Wolff’s, Rupert Murdoch, Wolff, ”, “, The Mary Tyler Moore, Donald J, Trump, —, soggy Organizations: Fox News
☆ Nobody Ever Read American Literature Like This Guy Did
  + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( A.O. Scott | More About A.O. Scott | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
It has been a hundred years since D.H. Lawrence published “Studies in Classic American Literature,” and in the annals of literary criticism the book may still claim the widest discrepancy between title and content. Not with respect to subject matter: As advertised, this compact volume consists of essays on canonical American authors of the 18th and 19th centuries — a familiar gathering of dead white men. Some (Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman) are still household names more than a century later, while others (Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Richard Henry Dana Jr.) have faded into relative obscurity. My point is that nobody ever read them like Lawrence did — as madly, as wildly or as insightfully. “Studies in Classic American Literature” is as dull a phrase as any committee of professors could devise.
Persons: Lawrence, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Hector St, John de Crèvecoeur, Richard Henry Dana Jr, Melville’s, Moby, Dick, ”, Farmer ”, — Organizations: “
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