Beauty and ugliness are not just aesthetic ideas—they have cultural, biological, subjective, intersubjective, political, commercial, and historical dimensions. In 2022, the philosopher Thomas J. Spiegel argued that “lookism”—discrimination based on unattractiveness—is not just

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    A Nobel laureate’s pedophilia was an open secret among the scientific community. In this week’s issue, Rachel Aviv reports on his dark legacy.

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    In 1989, a group of Soviet scientists was summoned to a secluded village on Moscow’s periphery, to discuss a pioneering technique for mass murder. Experiments had begun to demonst…

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    Cartoons by Ellie Black, Hartley Lin, Matilda Borgström, and Asher Perlman. See more cartoons from the issue:

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    On May 17th, the director general of the World Health Organization declared the current Ebola outbreak a public-health emergency of international concern in the Democratic Republi…

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    “Dukes,” a new show by the “S.N.L.” cast member Jane Wickline and the comedian Liva Pierce, is playful, illuminating, and unpretentiously experimental, Emily Nussbaum writes.

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    “The progression to get to that shot was impactful for me personally,” the celebrity photographer Emily Shur said, about shooting Mike Gordon, the bassist for Phish, in a bathtub…

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