Siva Vaidhyanathan

Behind last week’s scrum between the Trump administration and Anthropic lies a deeper question of how warfare is conducted—and whether accountability even exists anymore.

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

Ryan had not fought Trump on DEI and other matters. His forced ouster proves that no capitulation is enough.

Stay or run? Let’s not presume this is a simple question or that everyone’s situation is the same. But I know who my heroes are.

I have taken the liberty of crafting two pieces for the new Washington Post op-ed page that defend personal liberties and free markets. And here they are.

Jonathan Haidt once heralded an “ultrasocial” world. Now he’s one of social media’s most prominent critics.

Many of the political ideas we thought were taken for granted at the end of the 20th century have cracked and crumbled

With one post on X, Musk has the power to shut down the government of the most powerful nation in world history

In blocking the newspaper from endorsing Kamala Harris, Jeff Bezos is not acting cowardly so much as slyly

What should we make of the fact that the richest person in the world has joined forces with Donald Trump and promises now to serve the United States as some sort of czar of government “efficiency”? And what should we make of the world’s biggest pop…

In many ways, the long 21st century began when Apple launched the Macintosh with its ‘1984’ Super Bowl ad On Sunday, 22 January 1984, the Los Angeles Raiders defeated the Washington (then) Redskins 38-9 in Super Bowl XVIII. With the exception of a…

Your inbox is your home page, and The New Republic makes it smarter. Sign up now for your free newsletter. Democracy, as Walt Whitman and Woody Guthrie understood, is a feeling. We subscribe to the idea of democracy when we feel connected to and…

When rich people convince themselves that they’re rich because they’re smart – instead of lucky and ruthless – they misapply their talents to areas beyond their expertise Elon Musk is not the most reckless, destructive or dangerous corporate leader…

What if someone invented Instagram without the cute golden retriever photos, without any of the fun? What if someone invented Twitter without any of the serious and snarky back-and-forth about news, politics, ideas, or essential information about…

Since the ‘genius’ bought Twitter last year, he’s made a series of poor decisions – and now the platform is almost unusable If you use Twitter, the service that not so long ago was the best way to take in breaking news and find audiences for serious…

In my spring lecture course of 120 students, my teaching assistants caught four examples of students using artificial-intelligence-driven language programs like ChatGPT to complete short essays. In each case, the students confessed to using such…

ith 18 months to go before the next US presidential election, it’s already clear that – barring a physical collapse or two – Joe Biden will represent the Democrats and Donald Trump will carry the hopes of Republicans. This will be the first…

Even a cursory exploration of race and racism around the world would yield the conclusion that there is nothing simple about it. Racial identity and race-based oppression emerge, morph and erode in different ways in different parts of the world. But…

America 2050 1Division Is America’s Natural State2We Must Fight for a Better America. We Have No Choice.3The Work of Democracy Is Not Only a Group Endeavor View All We can’t predict if the United States will survive as a democratic republic until…

Musk, despite his wealth, good fortune and global influence, is not a serious person – but he is toying with dangerous ideas It took less than 48 hours for Elon Musk to reveal just how dangerous his new toy can be to this world. Replying to a tweet…