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Welcome back to The Weekend Press! Today, Joe Nocera reviews the new Steve Jobs biography, 40 years after profiling him. Jill Kargman, who skewers the Upper East Side for a living, says: “I don’t need Bellinis to be uncensored.” Kat Rosenfi...
When Steve Jobs Grew Up
The man I met in 1986 was a brat and a bully who didn’t know how to run a business. He failed—and learned to become a great leader, writes Joe Nocera.
Once upon a time, Steve Jobs told me that he didn’t like to think of himself as a busine...
Searching for God in Silicon Valley
The work of building frontier AI has brought us to the edge of where He might be, writes Avital Balwit.
A running joke at Bay Area parties is that AI researchers are “building God.” This, of course, sounds wildly grandiose. No one I have m...
Eat Thy Neighbor’s Sourdough
“One tragedy of social media is girls not seeing their unique beauty and all starting to look the same.” So says Freya India, one of our newest Free Press columnists, and the author of the brand-new book Girls®: Generation Z and the Commodi...
How the Trans Agenda Left Gay and Lesbian People Behind
In a speech delivered at the Cambridge Union, Maeve Halligan argues that the activist movement that was built to protect gays and lesbians has abandoned them.
Last week, University of Cambridge student Maeve Halligan delivered a speech at...
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