She caused controversy with books like “Eichmann in Jerusalem,” published in 1963, which grew out of her coverage of Adolf Eichmann’s trial for The New Yorker.

When Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver proposed their famous communication model in 1948, they could hardly have imagined that one day machines would not just transmit messages but generate poetry, ...

In A Nutshell A philosopher at UC San Diego argues that the near-universal view in academic philosophy that wrongdoers cannot have a right to be forgiven: is wrong. His central argument: promises ...

On March 9, 1776, four months before the American colonies broke with Britain over the issue of taxation, a little-known Scottish thinker published a long, dense book with an unpromising title: “An ...