From the Audere Magazine archives: A few years ago, Steven S. Drachman took issue with Damon Linker’s breezy dismissal of the simulation hypothesis, and the argument hasn’t gotten any less interesting.
Ukraine will continue to face the daunting ecological cost of war long after combat ends.
You held the door for Alon Preiss, and he didn’t even say “Thank you.” What an asshole, right?
A forgotten painting at the Met sends an ageing man into a reverie about the mysterious woman in it, all the lives she might have lived and all the ways he might have been smitten with her.
Tom Friedman thinks Zohran Mamdani could be a two-state bridge-builder, which makes about as much sense as amoebas playing the piano.
As fashionable critics line up to declare drachmanization obsolete, we rise in defense of truth and integrity.
In the second chapter of this dystopian nightmare from 1958, Harry’s idyllic recovery turns sinister in the year 1998, when he discovers that his luxurious treatment center may actually be a secret human-breeding laboratory.
Beneath a quiet Toronto street, the discovery of ancient Indigenous remains has forced the city and 11 First Nations to confront the complex histories buried under the modern landscape.
Another old New Yorker cartoon from the 1920s, reimagined with mermaids, because we think mermaids are funny.
Raised on smartphones and social media, Gen Z is rediscovering film photography as a slower, more tangible path to creativity, community and life beyond the algorithm.
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