Euphoria ended as a tug-of-war between extreme absurdity and realism, but that was always the show.

The best thing I watched in the past year was an epically long movie about retired militants, but it wasn’t One Battle After Another, the Oscar winner for Best Picture. It was The Sorrow and the Pity, ...

Be on guard if someone, especially a woman, tries to make you feel sorry for her. This may be a predatory ploy of a psychopath in disguise. The female psychopath is a master at invoking pity. As ...

They’re passing up the thrill of a lifetime. At least they have experienced the joys of actually writing code. The world of software development is changing very rapidly, and agentic coding is the ...

Empathy refers to the ability to understand how a person feels and to experience their emotions. Sympathy refers to feeling for another, such as feeling sorry for them, without actually feeling their ...

“I don’t like neutrality,” Marcel Ophuls wrote in his autobiography, Memoirs of a Father’s Son. “You can vote Green, Red, Pink, or Black. But never White. It’s in the life of nations, like in the life ...

“Design and Disability,” on view in London, goes beyond the precepts of “universal design” to celebrate particular identities and bodies. By Deyan Sudjic Reporting from London This article is part of ...

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In this month’s picks, a look back at a city in France during the Nazi occupation, an assessment of a renowned gay politician and an exploration of press freedoms in sovereign tribal nations. By Ben ...

Renowned documentary filmmaker Marcel Ophuls, who, along with his family, fled Nazi Germany as a child and spent his formative years in Los Angeles before having a cinematic career which earned him ...