I decided that the safest way to report on these men would be to try and pass as one of them: to go in disguise as a neo-Nazi fighter.

The language of debt and ethics.When E. E. Cummings wrote “i am never without it (anywhere / i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done / by only me is your doing, my darling),” he was talking about a lover, but he may as well have been talking a…

How Smart Reply attempts to mimic the way we talk.Last month, researchers at Google unveiled Smart Reply, a piece of artificial intelligence that scans the e-mail you’re reading on your phone and suggests three possible responses. Why bother compo…

Google, Alphabet, and Machiavelli.Yesterday, Google submitted an SEC filing announcing a major restructure. Larry Page, the cofounder and CEO of Google Inc, will become the CEO of a new corporation called Alphabet Inc; his fellow cofounder Sergey Bri…