Plus: Ben Shahn; Free Speech; Jane Goodall
| Today in The New York Review of Books: Gavin Francis reflects on the hope necessary to sustain both patients and clinicians during psychotherapy; Nicole Rudick looks at the tough-and-tender humanism in Ben Shahn’s art; Fara Dabhoiwala and Kwame Anthony Appiah debate the boundaries of free speech; a poem by Victoria Chang; and, from the archives, Stephen Jay Gould on Jane Goodall. Two recent books on the elusive work of psychiatric care explore the subject from both sides of the couch. From the Great Depression to the civil rights movement, Ben Shahn sent a clear message in his art about individual people and the conditions that oppressed them. “To focus only on government power vis-à-vis individual citizens, as modern arguments and policies about free speech tend to do, is insufficient. As interpretations of the First Amendment up to the 1950s usually recognized, and people elsewhere in the world continue to, one also needs to consider the responsibilities of mass media not to amplify lies, slanders, and misinformation about important matters” “I believe that Jane Goodall is one of the intellectual heroes of this century. More than twenty-five years ago, when she was in her twenties, by sheer gumption, and virtually alone, she began her studies of a chimpanzee community at Gombe, in Tanzania. She has persisted ever since, and continues still, by struggle and courage—and she has amassed in this quarter century our first adequate and comprehensive account of the natural behavior of our closest animal relative. What in all natural history could possibly be of more interest and importance to us?” “AI’s environmental toll appears still greater when one considers the technology’s climate implications beyond the energy consumption of its rapidly proliferating data centers.... Both Amazon and Microsoft offer AI tools to fossil fuel companies to help them identify new oil and gas reserves. This supports the fossil fuel industry without even the excuse long used to protect coal: that it creates jobs and benefits workers.” “How do Gazans read the evacuation notices now? Apart from grief and fear, more and more often there is nothing to help you on your way: no money, no tent, sometimes no surviving family members with whom to make the journey.” Special Offer
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