The professor of Drama, English, and Comparative Literature sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss cultural production, writing with ChatGPT, and modeling a chatbot after himself.

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René Descartes said the only thing we can be certain about is that we think. But what is the nature of thoughts? Philosophers have pondered this for centuries.

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Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Raphael Arndt, chief executive of the Future Fund, has spent years worrying about exactly the sort of environment that Donald ...

Bob Gale wrote and produced all three “Back to the Future” movies with franchise co-creator Robert Zemeckis, but he’s not interested in reviving the time travel franchise for a fourth go-around.

Professor David Holland (left) speaks virtually with the Palestinian author Raja Shehadeh, whose 2017 book was the center of ...