disgracefullyBy Cosmo Landesman

Oct 5, 2024 | thespectator.com | Lee Langley |Cosmo Landesman |Sean Thomas |disgracefullyBy Cosmo Landesman

Nothing is ever quite as it seems in the world of Olga Tokarczuk. Her latest novel starts with an epigraph taken from Fernando Pessoa: “The visible world goes on as usual in the broad daylight. Otherness watches us from the shadows.” Wild deer were murder suspects in her surreal and beautiful 2018 novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. This time nature itself plays a significant role.

Sep 24, 2024 | thespectator.com | Sebastian Shakespeare |Lee Langley |disgracefullyBy Cosmo Landesman |Cosmo Landesman

Brighton, EnglandRecently I lost my mother, my job and nearly my wife in quick succession (she was diagnosed with breast cancer). My son now needles me by asking what I do all day. “Son, I have seen things you wouldn’t believe. I have dark thoughts.” That is what I want to say, but I don’t have the courage. It is hard to explain to an eleven-year-old that the black dog can be as demanding as any full-time employer. Besides he wouldn’t get the Blade Runner reference.

Sep 12, 2024 | thespectator.com | Amber Duke |Lee Langley |disgracefullyBy Cosmo Landesman |Cosmo Landesman

Someone call the disinformation police! Left-wing conspiracy theories and attempts to manipulate the media are spiraling out of control ahead of the 2024 election. From tall tales about former president Donald Trump staging his own assassination attempt to the lower-stakes speculation that Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance is wearing guyliner, “BlueAnon” has reemerged in a big way.

Apr 16, 2024 | thespectator.com | Ben Domenech |Lee Langley |disgracefullyBy Cosmo Landesman |Cosmo Landesman

There are few greater joys in life than to wander the streets of Charleston in the evening, the light and shadow of the holy city and the sea salt in the air guiding you near the haunted past, toward cobblestones and the maze of the French Quarter.

Mar 18, 2024 | thespectator.com | Joel Kotkin |Marshall Toplansky |Lee Langley |disgracefullyBy Cosmo Landesman

Artificial intelligence (AI) and its related technologies — machine learning and the metaverse — represent a watershed in the evolution of the global economy. Like other such shifts, its emergence is likely to favor certain interests, notably a handful of technology giants, the media and a small cadre of highly skilled programmers. Everyone else faces economic danger, certain to roil domestic and international politics in coming years.