Author: Michelle Korhonen
In the summer of 1958, Morton Smith, a newly hired Columbia University historian, traveled to an ancient monastery outside Jerusalem. In its library, he found what he said was a lost gospel. His announcement made international headlines. Scholars of the Bible would spend years debating the discovery’s significance for the history of Christianity. But in 1975, one of Smith’s colleagues went public with an extraordinary suggestion: The gospel was a fake. Its forger, the colleague believed, was Smith himself.The manuscript, in handwritten Greek, ran two and a half pages, but one passage drew outsize attention. It depicted Jesus spending the…
FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh has been branded a ‘fascist pit bull’ after announcing plans to seek out the unruly firefighters who booed New York Attorney-General Letitia James as she gave a speech earlier this week.James was speaking at a New York Fire Department promotion ceremony on Thursday when the jeers began before she even took the stage. The firefighters shouted Donald Trump’s name as James appealed for calm from those gathered at the Christian Cultural Center’s Brooklyn Campus.But it appears those behind the chanting may not get away with it if Fire Department chiefs have anything to do with it.FDNY Chief of Department John Hodgens sent…
The song that has most influenced pop music of the past decade might be one released in 1984: Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m On Fire.” With a rhythm that was twitchy but not quite danceable, with desperate vocals and cooling puddles of reverb, “I’m on Fire” was ballad and banger, confessional and slick, embodied and ghostly. Springsteen sang of being trapped on the edge of catharsis, and the music seemed to want to suspend time.A lot of Taylor Swift’s recent songs contain traces of “I’m on Fire,” either in their specific production choices or in their general mood. So do the songs…
The ‘fawning’ BBC Newsnight documentary about two Syrian refugee brothers who have now been convicted of the rape of a 13-year-old girl seven times has been revealed. Brothers Omar and Mohamed Badreddin, along with two others, were sentenced to a total of 38.5 years for the rape of the child between August 2018 and April 2019 in Newcastle Crown Court this week. Mohamed, 23, was convicted of six counts of rape and one of assault by penetration and was sentenced to 13 years in prison, while his brother Omar, 26, was convicted of five counts of rape and sentenced to 18 years…
Everyone knows AIs are dangerous. Everyone knows they can rattle off breakthroughs in wildlife tracking and protein folding before lunch, put half the workforce out of a job by supper, and fake enough reality to kill whatever’s left of democracy itself before lights out.Fewer people admit that AIs are intelligent—not yet, anyway—and even fewer, that they might be conscious. We can handle GPT-4 beating 90 percent of us on the SAT, but we might not be so copacetic with the idea that AI could wake up—could already be awake, if you buy what Blake Lemoine (formerly of Google) or Ilya…
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Illustrations by Michelle GarciaCarlito held one end of the rope, Omar the other. The three of us wore orange vests to seem official. Sebastián, our lookout, hid behind some bushes.“¡Here comes one!” I picked up my shovel and dug out some of the dirt we’d dumped in one of the potholes covering the road. Omar held up a gloved hand, signaling for the car to slow down and stop. Things had gotten more difficult for us recently, with the news warning of false checkpoints, where men dressed in military or police uniforms stopped vehicles under the pretense of government-sanctioned searches,…
For each of the past two years I have lost about a stone in weight. I’m eating healthy food, with plenty of fruit and vegetables, chicken, fish and eggs. I was a bit overweight a few years back but I really don’t want to lose more – but there’s never any advice for people who need to put weight on. I’m nearly 80. Can you help?‘Healthy food’ is an interesting term without any real definition.For somebody who needs to reduce their risk of heart disease or has diabetes, it would mean a diet that helped maintain a healthy weight that’s…
The State of the Union “was the kickoff of a general election campaign and it was a clear contrast from Republicans on everything from abortion to immigration, to the economy.”Courtesy of Washington Week With The AtlanticMarch 9, 2024, 4:33 PM ETEditor’s Note: Washington Week With The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. Check your local listings or watch full episodes here. Between the Super Tuesday results and the president’s State of the Union address, a Joe Biden–Donald Trump face-off—the first presidential rematch since the 1950s—has become all but…
Despite our privileged backgrounds, my classmates in the 1970s were no different from any other boys aged 11 or 12 in finding the subject of sex endlessly intriguing. Our actual knowledge of this special interest, however, tended to be rudimentary and confused. We were on constant high alert for words that alluded in any way at all to genitals, breasts or bodily functions. We had vague ideas about words that were sexual, but these were random notions rather than concrete knowledge.And even John Porch (whom we nicknamed Jack), the headmaster of our prep school, Maidwell Hall in Northamptonshire, would have…