California is set to launch a database for school support staff, such as bus drivers and janitors, with substantiated claims of egregious misconduct. Setting up a similar system for public school teachers, however, is proving more complicated.

In this special hour-long edition of NYRSeminars, Daniel Mendelsohn, Editor-at-Large of The New York Review and author of the most recent translation of Homer’s epic, discusses Christopher Nolan’s polarizing blockbuster adaptation of the Odyssey.
California is set to launch a database for school support staff, such as bus drivers and janitors, with substantiated claims of egregious misconduct. Setting up a similar system for public school teachers, however, is proving more complicated.
The idea that artificial intelligence can “reason” is more intuitive than ever. But intuitions can be wrong, and the science is far from settled.

Hidden behind two centuries of aggressive presidential corollaries is an enduring appeal to hemispheric solidarity.

An explosive novel probes the roots of homophobia in Senegal, where a chilling anti-LGBTQ+ law just passed.
Uganda has successfully contained the recent Ebola outbreak and is once again considered Ebola-free.
‘On the Psychology of Military Incompetence’ examines the narrow minds of petty men.
The corruption crisis may be the most important source of rot in the U. S. system.