Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women?
Tech companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to improve conditions for female employees. Here’s why not much has changed—and what might actually work.
April 2017
In This Issue
Kellyanne Conway as the Trump whisperer, Pleistocene Park, why Silicon Valley is so awful to women, and what your therapist doesn’t know. Plus, what secularization has done to American politics, and more.
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Kellyanne’s Alternative Universe
Will the truth ever catch up with Trump’s most skilled spin artist?
What Your Therapist Doesn’t Know
Big Data has transformed everything from sports to politics to education. It could transform mental-health treatment, too—if only psychologists would stop ignoring it.
Welcome to Pleistocene Park
In Arctic Siberia, Russian scientists are trying to stave off catastrophic climate change—by resurrecting an Ice Age biome complete with lab-grown woolly mammoths.
Making Athens Great Again
How does a citizen respond when a democracy that prides itself on being exceptional betrays its highest principles? Plato despaired, but he also pointed the way to renewal.
Dispatches
Edmon De Haro Breaking Faith
The culture war over religious morality has faded; in its place is something much worse.
John Cuneo Professor Caveman
Why Bill Schindler is teaching college students to live like early humans
Gabriel Silveira Big in China: Murder Villages and Scam Towns
In some rural areas, crime has become a cottage industry.
Doug Chayka Can Wall Street Save Trump From Himself?
The promise and peril in the president’s surrounding himself with former bankers
Christopher DeLorenzo How to Buy Happiness
Social scientists offer some answers.
Alvaro Dominguez Rise of the Robolawyers
How legal representation could come to resemble TurboTax
Educational Images / Getty Haute Concrete
With his first building in New York, the architect Tadao Ando takes the material to new heights.
Joe McKendry X-Rated Twain
A very short book excerpt
The Culture File
Image Comics Beowulf Is Back!
What’s behind the running pop-culture engagement with the epic poem?
WG600; Bettmannn; Ed Clark / Getty; Y_Seki / Shutterstock Who Stopped McCarthy?
What the history of Republican infighting can teach us today
Eleanor Davis The Stubborn Optimist
Following the persevering example of the writer and activist Grace Paley
Adrian Tomine Lessons of the Hermit
Hiding in a forest for 27 years, a man found what the rest of us can no longer comprehend: solitude in nature.
Pantheon The Disorienting Power of My Cat Yugoslavia
A review of Pajtim Statovci’s dark debut novel
Departments
Javier Jaén The Conversation
Readers respond to stories in our January/February issue and more.
Graham Roumieu What Is the Most Significant Fad of All Time?
A big question
Poetry
Lure
A poem
