"THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ROOM IN NEW YORK" This new musical by the New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik, with music by David Shire, grew out of the friendship between Mr. Gopnik and David and Karen Waltuck, who owned Chanterelle, a restaurant that Mr. Gopnik knew well.
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They can — but they don't, as Gopnik glumly acknowledges.
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Yorker, Adam Gopnik produced what was surely the most counterintuitive
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Finally, Buddhism is not quite as unscientific as Gopnik intimates.
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"But he always made some complicated excuse," Mr. Gopnik said.
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The question Gopnik is raising isn't just an academic one.
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Gopnik and De Salvo compared notes on their Warhol writing projects.
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AT THE STRANGERS' GATE: Arrivals in New York, by Adam Gopnik.
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Gopnik has changed my thinking on parenting, friendships, marriage, and schooling.
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Gopnik, there is no alternative to liberalism, and that leads him perilously
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As art critic Blake Gopnik told Marketplace:I'm not saying that this isn't Leonardo.
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Politics and Prose bookstore, which he described as a "citadel of liberalism," Gopnik
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But despite his rhetoric, Gopnik is almost wholly uninterested in rooting out facts.
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In this regard, Gopnik perpetuates the jaundiced prosecutorial misconduct he seeks to denounce.
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AT THE STRANGERS' GATE Arrivals in New York By Adam Gopnik 253 pp.
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Contrary to what Gopnik writes, Buddhism does not teach that there is no self.
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To the developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik, this approach is the obvious way to go.
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Blake Gopnik is writing a biography of Andy Warhol for the HarperCollins imprint Ecco.
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Gopnik called the composer "ferociously smart about everything to do with money and marketing."
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Alison Gopnik is a professor of psychology and philosophy at the University of California Berkeley.
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Gopnik thinks that attempts to corroborate Buddhist ideas with modern science run into a contradiction.
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"Economic issues peculiar to capitalism have to be separated from those pervasive in modernity," Gopnik writes.
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"I relate so much to these women," she told Blake Gopnik of the New York Times.
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"His life is proof that unapologetic right-wing politics do not necessarily bend toward absolutism," Gopnik wrote.
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Consider a quote that Gopnik employs in suggesting that appraising Buddhist philosophy may be a fool's errand.
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In the lab, Gopnik and her colleagues have been figuring out how this might work in practice.
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Gopnik is enamored with nineteenth-century British literature and politics, and capsule biographies of its leading lights abound.
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Gopnik: Think of high quality as children interacting with a screen while a caregiver is also involved and engaged.
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And, Gopnik says, science is just "competitive storytelling" — which means, he says, that Buddhism is "antithetical" to scientific argument.
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With friends like Gopnik, liberals who don't want to live in the past might have to make do with Sullivan.
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" Gopnik acknowledged, "The laboriously recounted instances of near-ejaculation, the orgasms achieved and enumerated—it's all there for the reviewers.
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Alison Gopnik, who's a psychologist at University of California, Berkeley, talks about older women as the key to human nature.
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Aside from his regular essays in the magazine, Gopnik has also produced eight books, among them a number of memoirs.
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Blake Gopnik recalls the breathless pleasures of growing up in one such structure, the experimental housing pavilion Habitat in Montreal.
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According to the New Yorker's Adam Gopnik, though, the criticism that Nixon was doing bagels wrong didn't even make sense.
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As Adam Gopnik noted in a review of Mr Sharkey's book for the New Yorker, a virtuous circle started to roll.
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As Gopnik explains, many people find meditation acceptable but struggle with the concept of reincarnation, despite Buddhism's injunctions against overliteral interpretation.
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Blake Gopnik, who wanted to interview Mr. Brassner for a biography of Warhol, said he set up a number of meetings.
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" In The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik thundered: "Trump is a declared enemy of the liberal constitutional order of the United States.
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Gopnik describes how wearing the M.I.T. AgeLab's AGNES suit, which simulates loss of mobility and acuity, makes him annoyed and angry.
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This week, Adam Gopnik — a staff writer for the New Yorker and author of At the Strangers' Gate — answers our questions.
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I didn't have Gopnik on the show to talk about children; I had her on the show to talk about human beings.
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I agree with Gopnik on one thing: There are parts of Buddhist philosophy that, even when properly understood, seem paradoxical or opaque.
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The essayist Adam Gopnik joins the players of the Orchestra of St. Luke's, reading original writing among the movements of Schubert's Octet.
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"By trying to train the robot to do it, we could get more insight into how children are doing it," says Gopnik.
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Gopnik seems to think that this drift of Buddhist thought — its apparent emphasis on the inscrutability of things — largely insulates it from scrutiny.
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An exhibition of those works at the Corcoran in 2003 did not impress Blake Gopnik, who reviewed the show for The Washington Post.
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"They're kind of like kids that have helicopter-type parents, who are hovering over them and checking everything that they do," says Gopnik.
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"Young children have this ability to know that something is mythical, but yet experience it vividly at the same time," Dr. Gopnik said.
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When I heard last year that Adam Gopnik was writing a "stirring defense of liberalism" titled A Thousand Small Sanities, I had many questions.
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"When they actually get there and they have to do something else, they fall apart and don't know what to do next," Gopnik adds.
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Alison Gopnik changed how I think about love There is more great stuff in this conversation than I can write in a few sentences.
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Gopnik draws on the sociologist Patrick Sharkey, whose conclusions about the decline of urban crime he flattens into an implausibly simplistic tale of community action.
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" Taylor, Douglass and the others are valuable to Gopnik precisely because they advanced causes that discomfited most of their contemporaries who did call themselves "liberals.
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In a recent New Yorker essay about Charles de Gaulle, Adam Gopnik described the French leader in ways that left me thinking about McCain's legacy.
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Adam Gopnik is a respected writer for The New Yorker, one of the most hallowed institutions of journalism (that has a notoriously rigorous fact-checking department).
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Intellectually no less than materially, Gopnik is a product of his time, a child of the end of history and the first wave of ecstatic globalization.
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Gopnik recognizes, as the Tennessee Supreme Court found in overturning the conviction, that Noura was the victim of a pattern of misconduct by the district attorney.
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Co-sleeping or crying it out, forcing extra homework or letting kids goof around — very little of it has predictable effects on a child's future, Gopnik writes.
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Gopnik does not even try to explain how the welfare state came under attack in subsequent decades and what that might tell us about his idealized liberalism.
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In a New York Times Op-Ed, developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik explained that young children learn through play, much in the way scientists learn by doing experiments.
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"We enjoy talking about these incidents as though they reflect eating rules that New Yorkers alone enjoy and intuit and share," argued Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker.
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Trump was notably unable to attract any artists that illustrate the "incredible wealth and beauty of American popular music," as the New Yorker's Adam Gopnik wrote on January 13.
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I spoke to Gopnik about how her research on children has been perceived by male scientists and how that may finally be changing to the benefit of AI research.
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Gopnik judges political positions not by the substance of their arguments, but on a scale from childish and dangerous (radicalism of all types) to grown-up and responsible (moderate reformism).
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In the chapter on right-wing critiques of liberalism, Gopnik summarizes the arguments of various types of "authoritarians" that liberalism is not good at providing clear order and symbolic identity.
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We get an unexplained detour through the life of the anarchist Emma Goldman, whose critique of liberalism interests Gopnik less than her "enthusiastic sexual awakening" and her hatred of Lenin.
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Gopnik has heard of depressed, deindustrialized places like Akron, Ohio, and Lille, France, and even understands that the sense of degradation and abandonment has pushed them toward right-wing nationalism.
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Mr. Gopnik mentions contemporary artists who have followed suit but misses an opportunity to highlight what's new at the nexus of business and art: creatives who start social-purpose businesses.
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Developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik wants us to take a deep breath—and focus less on how much kids use tech and more on how kids can use tech to their advantage.
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The "Berlin consensus," which Gopnik seems to have absorbed, held that a more limited "negative liberty"—allowing people to pursue their own definitions of liberty—could protect individuals from such projects.
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In the opening talk, "Jerusalem & Athens: A Tale of Two Cities," Mr. Gopnik plans to set the stage for discussions by lecturing on Jerusalem's history of arguments over faith and reason.
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"It would be a source of grief to Dick to find himself the subject of a posthumous tell all, a genre he loudly, and often, despised," Mr. Gopnik said in an email.
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"American lovers of musical theater blame Andrew Lloyd Webber for pretty much everything that went wrong on its stages, starting in the early seventies," The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik wrote in 2018.
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The setting for these admonitions is a comfortable liberal family, as Gopnik pretends every once in a while that he is addressing his arguments to his (presumably) left-leaning college-age daughter, Olivia.
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In "The Gates," Mr. Gopnik tells how he and his wife, Martha Parker, twice made a home in New York — the second time when, after years abroad, they returned with their two children.
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Some examples of Times essays we used to support student learning are "What Babies Know About Physics and Foreign Languages" by Alison Gopnik and "Let the Kids Learn Through Play" by David Kohn.
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But as the machines slowly become more advanced and creep deeper into our daily lives, perhaps we'd do well to let them grow up in a way, argues UC Berkeley psychologist Alison Gopnik.
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"At the Strangers' Gate" is framed by the repeated assertion that Gopnik not only loves his wife, he adores her: He adored her then, he adores her now, he will adore her forever.
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Rebecca Welper Durham, N.C. Moral Warrior Adam Gopnik, in his discussion of David Blight's biography of Frederick Douglass, characterizes John Brown as an unhinged fanatic motivated by bloodlust (A Critic at Large, October 15th).
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Thorbjarnarson refused Warhol's entreaties and found himself justified three days later, when the sick man was at last on the operating table," Mr. Gopnik said, adding, "The surgeon found a gallbladder full of gangrene.
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But as Alison Gopnik, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, suggested to me recently, learning the truth may not diminish children's feeling of magic as much as many parents fear.
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In previous books, including "The Philosophical Baby," the developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik has argued that the complex minds of children and the way they approach the world can help us better understand the human condition.
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" The New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik, who will discuss Camus at the New York Public Library on April 14 with the historian Robert Zaretsky, described Camus's visit as partly a "comedy of cross-cultural misunderstanding.
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These are, in fact, stories that Mr. Gopnik has told before, and if you've read his latest collection, "At the Strangers' Gate: Arrivals in New York," the first half of the show will sound familiar.
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A THOUSAND SMALL SANITIES The Moral Adventure of LiberalismBy Adam Gopnik Witty, humane, learned, "A Thousand Small Sanities" is a book that some of its author's many fans may be tempted to read too fast.
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He won't say Yes, but he cannot quite say No. In a short, elegant discussion of the conservative counterpoint to the liberal tradition, Gopnik invokes the thought of his fellow Montrealer, the philosopher Charles Taylor.
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What made him unique among his peers was, as Gopnik notes, a belief in true racial equality—a principle that even his most lauded white contemporaries, including William Lloyd Garrison and Abraham Lincoln, never fully espoused.
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During a brief interlude between the show's halves, after Mr. Gopnik exits the stage, the audience sees projected photos of him and Ms. Parker in the 1980s, young and gorgeous, adventurers in a grittier New York.
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I love Jamaica Kincaid's fiction and essays, especially her essays on gardening; the poetry of Rita Dove, Elizabeth Alexander and Jorie Graham; the essays of Adam Gopnik, Zadie Smith and Malcolm Gladwell; Simon Schama's art criticism.
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"The Gates: An Evening of Stories with Adam Gopnik" is an autobiographical suite of stories focusing on the writer's early life in New York in the '80s and his life in the much-transformed city of today.
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It rejects tolerance for precisely the reasons Gopnik himself offers in his description of dogmatic religion: If you think you have unique access to the truth, why wouldn't you be intolerant of those who reject that truth?
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"This was major, major surgery — not routine — in a very sick person," Dr. Ryan told the art critic Blake Gopnik, the author of a forthcoming biography of Warhol, for a 2017 Times article about the Ryan investigation.
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True to her own ethos, Gopnik goes light on prescriptions for individual parents, though some of them may wonder what exactly it looks like to be the beatific "gardener" of a 6-year-old shrieking for iPhone time.
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Whenever Gopnik edges up to confronting what this looks like in practice, she gestures to "paradox" and "mystery" and "moral depth" and pulls back to reassure the reader that this is really about the species as a whole.
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The welfare state that Gopnik celebrates as the achievement of socialists who saw the light and "went liberal" was frequently built by conservative governments working with the United States to block the more radical egalitarian aims of the left.
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But it is a left-wing magazine, anti-Islamist and pro-immigrant, as you can see for yourself by reading a posthumous manifesto, "Open Letter," by one of the murdered editors, Charb (with a lucid foreword by Adam Gopnik).
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Joe Cerrell Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation London, England Dignity Behind Bars Adam Gopnik, in his review of Emily Bazelon's "Charged," surveys a set of new books that humanize the millions of people imprisoned in the U.S. (Books, April 15th).
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How We Define Buddhism Adam Gopnik, in his essay on American Buddhism, strikes an elegant balance between respect for Buddhist spirituality and efforts to "secularize" specific practices, but he misses some crucial distinctions (A Critic at Large, August 7th & 14th).
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Lloyd Webber also has a "reputation as the guy who dragged the Broadway musical from its vitality and idiomatic urgency back to its melodramatic roots in European operetta—while also degrading rock music to a mere rhythm track," Gopnik wrote.
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Adam Gopnik, a columnist and cultural commentator for The New Yorker — with the help of WNYC's Jonathan Schwartz and the actress and singer Melissa Errico — leads a multimedia exploration of the show, which is widely considered one of the greatest in showbiz history.
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The Public Theater's 2018 Under the Radar Festival will feature pieces inspired by the work of the pioneering science fiction writer Octavia Butler and the influential rock critic Lester Bangs, as well as an autobiographical show from the New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik.
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As always, Gopnik shows himself to be a skillful manager of complex concepts and nuanced reflection, but, like others who seek to understand the dharma, he would do well to take the advice of Zen teachers past and present: sit down and shut up.
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IMAGINING JERUSALEM: THE GOLDEN CITY IN ART, LORE AND LITERATURE SERIES (Wednesday) Adam Gopnik, the beloved New Yorker writer and critic, hosts this series tied to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition "Jerusalem 211–2208: Every People Under Heaven," on view through Jan. 241.
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David Grossman; Orhan Pamuk; Amitav Ghosh; Jennifer Egan; Alberto Manguel; Louise Glück; Mike Bartlett; David Remnick; A. M. Homes, André Aciman; Jonathan Safran Foer; Adam Gopnik; Marina Hyde; Jonathan Freedland; Nicole Krauss; Niall Ferguson (though we beg to disagree); George Saunders; Leon Wieseltier; Edna O'Brien.
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Admirers of Dr. Seuss will swoon for Brian Jay Jones's new biography, "Becoming Doctor Seuss," tracing how the author's work shaped the American imagination for generations — and also how it was itself shaped by the American imagination, as Adam Gopnik notes in his review.
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In fact, David Hume, an emphatically Western philosopher, made an argument against the reality of the self that is so similar to longstanding Buddhist arguments as to make some scholars (including, as it happens, Alison Gopnik, Adam's sister) suspect that Hume had encountered Buddhist thought.
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When this intersection between stop and frisk methods and hot spots proved to be statistically successful in lowering crime rates - a forty percent drop was reported in the decade following the crime wave, according to author Adam Gopnik - police departments everywhere never looked back.
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"Since we're designing the toy, we know what the problem is that the children are having to solve, and we know what kinds of data they're getting about that problem, because we are the ones who are controlling what the toy does," Gopnik says.
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In the very end, even Roth got lionized and sanitized, with a National Medal of Arts bestowed by President Obama in 2011, a salute to his civic-mindedness from Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker, and an extraordinarily generous fictional portrait in Lisa Halliday's excellent novel Asymmetry.
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"The liberation of women, the emancipation of slaves and then of the racially oppressed, the recognition of the rights of sexual minorities — these are all the unique achievements of liberal states, engineered by liberal activists, all things that have never happened before in history," Gopnik writes.
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Writers like Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker and Robert Kagan in The Washington Post have answered "yes," citing as evidence Trump's ethnic demagoguery, his scorn for and ignorance of the existing democratic system, his indulgence in conspiracy thinking, and his open admiration of autocrats like Vladimir Putin.
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You can finish listening or leave the theater aware that the show is about us (at the New Yorker, Adam Gopnik called it "the musical of the Obama era"), but not have as clear a picture of how its themes connect to matters in the 21st century: immigration, racism, poverty, liberty.
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She explains why in an essay titled "AIs Versus Four-Year-Olds," which appears in the new anthology Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI. Noting that preschoolers can learn things even the most sophisticated AIs can't, Gopnik argues that studying kids can give programmers useful hints about directions for computer learning.
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But for the purposes of reviewing a book that strenuously asserts that the term "bourgeois" is a slur devoid of meaning, it is worth recalling that Gopnik came of age in 1980s New York where, arriving starry-eyed from Montreal, he quickly penetrated the world of genteel bohemia and scaled the heights of elite journalism.
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Indeed, Agrawal and Pathak took inspiration from the work of Alison Gopnik and Laura Schulz, developmental psychologists at Berkeley and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, respectively, who showed that babies and toddlers are naturally drawn to play with objects that surprise them the most, rather than with objects that are useful to achieving some extrinsic goal.
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The British baritone Williams is joined by Drake, the pianist and artistic director of the Y's Vocal Series, for Beethoven's "An die Ferne Geliebte" and Brahms's "Die Schöne Magelone," but it will be a "Die Schöne Magelone" with a difference, featuring readings by the essayist Adam Gopnik and animated films by the filmmaker Cristina Garcia Martin.
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Such a writer is Adam Gopnik, a journalist who has been pulling these rabbits — on art, religion, politics, food, literature, children, Darwin, Lincoln and France — out of his hat for the past 30 years, with the result that he has amassed a devoted readership as well as the praise and gratitude of the four editors under whom he has worked at The New Yorker.
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Driving the news: A panel of leading AI scientists laid out the state of the art at Stanford on Monday, at the launch of the university's Institute for Human-Centered AI. Among the various stabs at solving the data problem: Curiosity-based AI, which would find gaps in its knowledge and gather the missing data itself — like a two-year-old finding her way about the world, according to Berkeley psychology professor Alison Gopnik.
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Even more important, Gopnik has never been able to keep his bottomless enthusiasm for bourgeois domesticity contained to his personal essays: With an almost clockwork consistency, he loses himself rifling through the lives of famous thinkers for evidence of the "bourgeois obsessions" he explored in Paris to the Moon, especially romantic marriages (Napoleon, Darwin, and Lincoln all loved their wives uxoriously) and shopping ("There are few more premonitory or touching documents than Voltaire's shopping lists").
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" The most attractive as well as intellectually substantial sections in the book are Gopnik's meditations on SoHo in those years, and what it was like to be there on a Saturday morning, with the cognoscenti making the rounds of the galleries, armed with the insider knowledge that soon very rich people would be owning what they were now appraising better than the collectors ever could — and here Gopnik has something interesting to say about all the hip people who "loved the art that critiqued the system of commodification, without seeing that a system of commodification was exactly what had allowed the critique to emerge in ways it never could where commodification was prohibited.
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