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Becca Rothfeld

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 30, 2026
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Aug 16, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Becca Rothfeld

    The Humanism Driving the Anti-A.I. Movement (opens the original)

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    In the past year, data centers have emerged as a central issue in both American politics and the gyre of discourse swirling around American politics. On blogs and podcasts, the commentariat has marvelled at the emergence of an elusive bipartisan consensus. And well they should: the most recent polling shows that an astounding seventy-one per cent of the population opposes data-center construction in their areas. Equally astonishing, if not yet equally remarked upon, is the consensus about A.I. i

  2. Article · Aug 29, 2026 · Becca Rothfeld

    Cinema Lessons from a Trash-Movie Auteur (opens the original)

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    I worship at the altar of trash, by which I mean that I am one of those cinephiles with a fondness for bad movies. Perhaps I am underselling the corpus I have in mind by calling it merely “bad,” and understating my sect’s feeling by calling it merely “fondness.” The movies my fellow-cultists and I most esteem are not just bad but incredibly, impressively terrible—scrambled, technically maladroit, incomprehensible at the level of basic plotting—and we are not just fond but obsessed, digging throu

  3. Article · Aug 16, 2026 · Becca Rothfeld

    Rachel Cusk’s Protest Against Personhood (opens the original)

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    The protagonist of Rachel Cusk’s new novel, “Life of M,” has a peculiar technique for falling asleep. She “visualizes a brick wall. It fills her field of vision; its perimeters are out of sight. With a narrow implement she begins chipping at the mortar around a first brick, usually the one directly in front of her. She works steadily and calmly. The mortar loosens and falls away piece by piece. When it has been removed she pushes the brick forward with her hand. It falls down the other s

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