Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

 

On the NYR Daily, Garry Wills and David Cole address the constitutional and political issues around replacing Justice Scalia on the Supreme Court. In the Review, Jacob Weisberg writes about how smartphones are altering human relationships, Elizabeth Drew looks at why America is falling apart, and Garry Kasparov explores chess and artificial intelligence (his first match against IBM’s Deep Blue ended 20 years ago today).

 

​ The Chess Master and the Computer Garry Kasparov Deep Blue was only intelligent the way your programmable alarm clock is intelligent (2010) ​

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​ We Are Hopelessly Hooked Jacob Weisberg Once out of bed, we check our phones 221 times a day—an average of every 4.3 minutes—according to one study ​

​ A Country Breaking Down Elizabeth Drew When it comes to providing the essentials of a modern society, it has to be said that we’re a backward country ​

 

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Coming in the March 10 issue: Jerome Groopman on cancer, Bill McKibben on the Koch brothers, Nicholas Lemann on Ronald Reagan, and a new essay by Zadie Smith

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​ How to Pick a New Justice Garry Wills Those who profess an absolute devotion to the Constitution should at least pay it some lip service ​

​ The Constitution in Politics David Cole Scalia’s vision of the Constitution has never been more dramatically refuted than in the days since his death