Writings
“The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time” | The New Yorker
The obscure computer scientist who built the system that shaped how computer clocks are synchronized—and the power struggle now growing in his wake
“The Virus and the Dementia Unit” | New York
Caring for nursing home residents who could not remember instructions, once Covid-19 arrived
“The Origins of Video-Chat Voice” | The New Yorker
How the Internet impersonates you in real time
“Why Can’t We Hold Each Other?” | GQ
The costs of American straight men’s allergy to platonic, prolonged physical contact with one another
“All Our Senior Administration Officials” | Columbia Journalism Review
Searching for meaning in political reporting’s widely deployed, rarely defined phrase
“Blockbusters” | The Awl
An unexpected history
Interviews
Sean Penn
On skepticism and the #MeToo movement
Naoki Higashida
On living with nonverbal autism
Yuval Noah Harari
On the futures of identity, religion, and being useless
Barbara Blatchley
On how to get luckier
Tony Kanaan
On the lessons learned from a life of misfortune