NotableTrump can be bad all on his own. “‘Bad advice’ is a plausible excuse only if the person you’re trying to excuse had little to no part in picking his advisers or had reason to believe they weren’t who they turned out to be. In Trump’s case, the opposite is true.” — Frank Bruni, contributing Opinion writer The big Southern freeze. “Nashville is great in a crisis. Lots of communities are great in a crisis, human beings in general tend to be great in a crisis, but this is the town I know best, and I am always heartened to be reminded anew that people here take care of one another.” — Margaret Renkl, contributing Opinion writer Is Trump a conservative Roosevelt? “One lesson here is that expansion of presidential claims easily becomes a spent force and fails to stick without large and durable congressional majorities and sustained public support.” — Jack Goldsmith and Samuel Moyn, authors who specialize in the law and politics Spotlight
Where Is A.I. Taking Us?Eight leading thinkers explain how to make sense of one of the most consequential new technologies of our time. ICYMIMy patient was dying. His wife refused to accept it. “As the days passed, my patient continued to worsen. It was clear that he would die and the only question was whether his wife would acknowledge that reality or would rail against it — and us — until the end.” — Daniela J. Lamas, contributing Opinion writer Listen (or Watch)
More in OpinionIn Your WordsRe: “Students Are Skipping the Hardest Part of Growing Up” After another depressing article on A.I., I ask, what exactly is it good for? And someone will say it’s going to revolutionize medical treatments because it can recognize patterns in huge quantities of data or some other impressive sounding future achievement. And I wonder, how many of us, the actual living, breathing humans on planet Earth, want our civilization to go in this direction? How many of us have been swayed by how few? — A comment posted by RE from New York Read more comments on the story here and check out our Letters to the Editor. We hope you’ve enjoyed this newsletter, which is made possible through subscriber support. Subscribe to The New York Times.
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