Stephen Marche
The Guardian
Toronto, ON, Canada
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The apocalypse isn’t coming. We must resist cynicism and fear about AI
Remember when WeWork would kill commercial real estate? Crypto would abolish banks? The metaverse would end meeting people in real life? → Read More
God save us all: Britain is about to get the king it deserves
Viewed from Canada, the coronation is especially absurd – and the contradictions of Charles III perfectly suit the moment → Read More
Opinion: Canada’s new artificial intelligence laws in Bill C-27 are not very intelligent
Bill C-27 is ostensibly meant to protect Canadians’ privacy, but its provisions for AI threaten our potential future as leaders in artificial intelligence → Read More
‘Our mission is crucial’: meet the warrior librarians of Ukraine
When Russia invaded Ukraine, a key part of its strategy was to destroy historic libraries in order to eradicate the Ukrainians’ sense of identity. But Putin hadn’t counted on the unbreakable spirit of the country’s librarians → Read More
Opinion: Another midterm election delivers another unreadable America
After the latest inscrutable vote marked by cynical half-victories and non-defeats, what does ‘the will of the American people’ even mean? → Read More
Biden says US democracy is under threat. Here’s what he can do to help fix it
We don’t need lofty rhetoric about democracy. We need to pack the courts, fight partisan gerrymandering, campaign finance reform and more → Read More
Opinion: The Mar-a-Lago raid brings the United States a step closer to civil war
An ex-president in jail is an entirely plausible scenario, but what will the fallout be? Is it worth it? → Read More
The January 6 hearings are a brilliant spectacle. That’s also their danger
If the hearings end without consequences for Trump, the main takeaway will be: this is how much you can get away with in 2020s America → Read More
With the end of Roe, the US edges closer and closer to civil war
The question is no longer whether there will be a civil conflict in America. The question is how the sides will divide, and who will prevail → Read More
Opinion: On guns, Canada is once again busying itself with America’s problems
Claiming America’s crises as our own is a terrible way to make Canadian policy. And yet all our parties keep doing it → Read More
The supreme court’s coming abortion ruling may spark a new era of US unrest
There’s a strong risk that the case will spark anger and violence – whether the court overturns Roe v Wade or not → Read More
The next US civil war is already here – we just refuse to see it
The right has recognized that the system is in collapse, and it has a plan: violence and solidarity with treasonous far-right factions → Read More
Secession might seem like the lesser of two evils. It’s also the less likely.
At least it’s not civil war — and other countries do it all the time — but breaking up the union would be next to impossible here. → Read More
Opinion: 2022 is the year America falls off a cliff. How will Canada hang on?
The question increasingly facing those who care about the United States is how, not if, the republic will end → Read More
The Algorithm That Could Take Us Inside Shakespeare’s Mind
Machine learning programs have recently made huge advances. Stephen Marche tested one against Shakespeare’s collected works, to see if it could help him figure out which of the several versions of Hamlet’s soliloquy was most likely what the playwright intended. → Read More
As the pandemic retreats, we’re left wondering what we’ve been through
The structure of our lives changed: We had time without timeliness. → Read More
Your wedding's been cancelled by the coronavirus lockdown? Good
Starting your life together with a splurge of debt and wasteful narcissism is a relic of a bygone time – let’s leave it there → Read More
How to End Pandemic Fights With Your Partner
Couples’ fights in lockdown are often about the unremitting intensity of togetherness. The sooner you de-escalate a fight, the sooner you can begin working on real solutions. → Read More
Covid-19 is the dress rehearsal for 21st century global crises
The problems of this century will be global and they will be intimate. Our culture of division cannot stand → Read More
I Can’t Afford These First Editions, but I Buy Them Anyway
Stephen Marche on why he collects rare books and why our culture undervalues them. → Read More