Crowd forceYou’re not as smart as you think you areHuman cleverness arises from distributing knowledge between minds, making people think they know more than they doprint-edition iconApr 6th 2017
The Orientalists replyMathias Enard’s love song for the EastThe Frenchman’s prizewinning novel is an epic wrangle over passion for a foreign cultureprint-edition iconApr 6th 2017
Wild thingsThe evolutionary element of marketsAndrew Lo’s theory of how economic actors mimic ecological onesprint-edition iconApr 6th 2017
International ice hockeyThe National Hockey League is replacing an Olympic headache with anotherThe league hopes to promote the World Cup of Hockey as a substitute, but the players aren’t buying itApr 7th 2017
A-OK“Sesame Street” introduces its young viewers to autismJulia, who makes her television debut on April 10th, exhibits some of the traits associated with autism spectrum disorderApr 6th 2017
Christian soldiersHow America’s evangelicals became a potent forceA new history of “the most American religious group”, from the Great Awakening to the Reagan coalition and beyondprint-edition iconApr 6th 2017
Manifesto manDouglas Carswell against the worldThe independent MP bashes established parties, new radicals, big companies and leftist solutionsprint-edition iconApr 6th 2017
Connoisseurs or colonists?Documenta’s controversial stay in AthensThe five-yearly art exhibition, normally held only in Kassel, provokes excitement and accusations in Greeceprint-edition iconApr 6th 2017
Our golf prediction modelMcIlroy for the win, Stenson for the wiseOur statistical forecasting model offers predictions for the 2017 MastersApr 5th 2017
A backhanded complementRoger Federer has turned his weakest shot into a weaponHis resurgence at the age of 35 owes much to a small technical improvementApr 5th 2017
Quality of competition in college basketballSo close yet so far, Gonzaga shows it’s time for a realignmentNorth Carolina’s narrow victory also represents a win for statistical analysts of college basketballApr 5th 2017
Adding colour“Queer British Art” explores the diversity of desireBy examining “non-conforming sexualities and gender identities”, a new exhibition recasts the Western canonApr 5th 2017
A sonic novel“S-Town” is a moving portrait of an ordinary lifeThe latest long-form podcast from the “Serial” team focuses on John McLemore, a citizen of Woodstock, AlabamaApr 5th 2017
Raiders and pillagersLas Vegas gains an NFL team—and a host of problemsAmerican football franchises bring extra crime and a greater tax burden to their home citiesApr 4th 2017
