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Suddenly, AI’s tech titans are talking up humanities. Wishful thinking or just a guilt trip?

Suddenly, AI’s tech titans are talking up humanities. Wishful thinking or just a guilt trip?

After decades of dismissing liberal arts as useless, the tech world is coming around to the idea that learning about human nature could be a valuable...

17.05.2026 20

The Age

Maureen Dowd

Suddenly, AI’s tech titans are talking up humanities. Wishful thinking or just a guilt trip?

Suddenly, AI’s tech titans are talking up humanities. Wishful thinking or just a guilt trip?

After decades of dismissing liberal arts as useless, the tech world is coming around to the idea that learning about human nature could be a valuable...

17.05.2026 10

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

Suddenly, AI’s tech titans are talking up humanities. Wishful thinking or just a guilt trip?

Suddenly, AI’s tech titans are talking up humanities. Wishful thinking or just a guilt trip?

After decades of dismissing liberal arts as useless, the tech world is coming around to the idea that learning about human nature could be a valuable...

17.05.2026 10

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

Suddenly, AI’s tech titans are talking up humanities. Wishful thinking or just a guilt trip?

Suddenly, AI’s tech titans are talking up humanities. Wishful thinking or just a guilt trip?

After decades of dismissing liberal arts as useless, the tech world is coming around to the idea that learning about human nature could be a valuable...

17.05.2026 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

Why Captain Outrageous was nothing like the gutless billionaires who submit to Trump

Why Captain Outrageous was nothing like the gutless billionaires who submit to Trump

The swashbuckler and great rival of Rupert Murdoch once laughed about how he could go off his medication and see off his tycoon rival once and for...

10.05.2026 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

Why Captain Outrageous was nothing like the gutless billionaires who submit to Trump

Why Captain Outrageous was nothing like the gutless billionaires who submit to Trump

The swashbuckler and great rival of Rupert Murdoch once laughed about how he could go off his medication and see off his tycoon rival once and for...

10.05.2026 10

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

Why Captain Outrageous was nothing like the gutless billionaires who submit to Trump

Why Captain Outrageous was nothing like the gutless billionaires who submit to Trump

The swashbuckler and great rival of Rupert Murdoch once laughed about how he could go off his medication and see off his tycoon rival once and for...

10.05.2026 10

The Age

Maureen Dowd

Why Captain Outrageous was nothing like the gutless billionaires who submit to Trump

Why Captain Outrageous was nothing like the gutless billionaires who submit to Trump

The swashbuckler and great rival of Rupert Murdoch once laughed about how he could go off his medication and see off his tycoon rival once and for...

10.05.2026 10

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

His Majesty and our travesty: Amid No Kings protests, Charles trumped the tyrant president

Nobody cared what Charles had to say last time he visited America because all eyes were on Princess Di, the Sloane Square Cinderella. This time, he...

03.05.2026 40

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

His Majesty and our travesty: Amid No Kings protests, Charles trumped the tyrant president

Nobody cared what Charles had to say last time he visited America because all eyes were on Princess Di, the Sloane Square Cinderella. This time, he...

03.05.2026 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

His Majesty and our travesty: Amid No Kings protests, Charles trumped the tyrant president

Nobody cared what Charles had to say last time he visited America because all eyes were on Princess Di, the Sloane Square Cinderella. This time, he...

03.05.2026 10

The Age

Maureen Dowd

His Majesty and our travesty: Amid No Kings protests, Charles trumped the tyrant president

Nobody cared what Charles had to say last time he visited America because all eyes were on Princess Di, the Sloane Square Cinderella. This time, he...

03.05.2026 20

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

All of his assumptions proven wrong, Donald Trump is Iran’s newest hostage

Iran’s hardened, fanatical generals are tormenting Trump, out-trolling the master troller, and viciously mocking the president as a Bibi puppet who...

26.04.2026 40

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

All of his assumptions proven wrong, Donald Trump is Iran’s newest hostage

Iran’s hardened, fanatical generals are tormenting Trump, out-trolling the master troller, and viciously mocking the president as a Bibi puppet who...

26.04.2026 40

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

All of his assumptions proven wrong, Donald Trump is Iran’s newest hostage

Iran’s hardened, fanatical generals are tormenting Trump, out-trolling the master troller, and viciously mocking the president as a Bibi puppet who...

26.04.2026 20

The Age

Maureen Dowd

All of his assumptions proven wrong, Donald Trump is Iran’s newest hostage

Iran’s hardened, fanatical generals are tormenting Trump, out-trolling the master troller, and viciously mocking the president as a Bibi puppet who...

26.04.2026 20

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

Watching Pope Leo school Trump is a blessed sight

Amoral US President Donald Trump has taken on the saintly Pope Leo, the first American to lead the Catholic Church. Trump’s not winning.

19.04.2026 20

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

Watching Pope Leo school Trump is a blessed sight

Amoral US President Donald Trump has taken on the saintly Pope Leo, the first American to lead the Catholic Church. Trump’s not winning.

19.04.2026 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

Watching Pope Leo school Trump is a blessed sight

Amoral US President Donald Trump has taken on the saintly Pope Leo, the first American to lead the Catholic Church. Trump’s not winning.

19.04.2026 10

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

Watching Pope Leo school Trump is a blessed sight

Amoral US President Donald Trump has taken on the saintly Pope Leo, the first American to lead the Catholic Church. Trump’s not winning.

19.04.2026 20

The Age

Maureen Dowd

A bitter ex, a deleted tweet, and Melania’s strange decision to dump kerosene on the Epstein fire

The first lady felt compelled to clear up the matter of how she and Donald Trump met, saying that she was not introduced to him by child sex...

12.04.2026 30

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

A bitter ex, a deleted tweet, and Melania’s strange decision to dump kerosene on the Epstein fire

The first lady felt compelled to clear up the matter of how she and Donald Trump met, saying that she was not introduced to him by child sex...

12.04.2026 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

A bitter ex, a deleted tweet, and Melania’s strange decision to dump kerosene on the Epstein fire

The first lady felt compelled to clear up the matter of how she and Donald Trump met, saying that she was not introduced to him by child sex...

12.04.2026 20

The Age

Maureen Dowd

A bitter ex, a deleted tweet, and Melania’s strange decision to dump kerosene on the Epstein fire

The first lady felt compelled to clear up the matter of how she and Donald Trump met, saying that she was not introduced to him by child sex...

12.04.2026 30

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

Sucking up to Trump will always be a losing battle. Just ask Pam and Kristi

Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem were discarded despite their eagerness to do anything to please Trump, debasing themselves and desecrating their departments...

05.04.2026 20

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

Sucking up to Trump will always be a losing battle. Just ask Pam and Kristi

Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem were discarded despite their eagerness to do anything to please Trump, debasing themselves and desecrating their departments...

05.04.2026 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

Sucking up to Trump will always be a losing battle. Just ask Pam and Kristi

Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem were discarded despite their eagerness to do anything to please Trump, debasing themselves and desecrating their departments...

05.04.2026 20

The Age

Maureen Dowd

Sucking up to Trump will always be a losing battle. Just ask Pam and Kristi

Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem were discarded despite their eagerness to do anything to please Trump, debasing themselves and desecrating their departments...

05.04.2026 10

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

Why world-class toadies Bondi and Noem were kicked to the curb

The attorney-general and homeland security secretary, “Pam Blondi” and “ICE Barbie” to their critics, learnt the hard way that sycophancy has...

05.04.2026 20

Financial Review

Maureen Dowd

Trump bragged ‘they let you do it’. This frenzy of narcissism is the result

Cadet Bone Spurs has developed a taste for flaunting our unparalleled military, and there’s no one at the Pentagon to curb this new appetite for...

29.03.2026 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

Trump bragged ‘they let you do it’. This frenzy of narcissism is the result

Cadet Bone Spurs has developed a taste for flaunting our unparalleled military, and there’s no one at the Pentagon to curb this new appetite for...

29.03.2026 30

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

Trump bragged ‘they let you do it’. This frenzy of narcissism is the result

Cadet Bone Spurs has developed a taste for flaunting our unparalleled military, and there’s no one at the Pentagon to curb this new appetite for...

29.03.2026 20

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

Trump bragged ‘they let you do it’. This frenzy of narcissism is the result

Cadet Bone Spurs has developed a taste for flaunting our unparalleled military, and there’s no one at the Pentagon to curb this new appetite for...

29.03.2026 20

The Age

Maureen Dowd

A smackdown for the ages at the Oscars after-party, and AI was the spark

A successful playwright chose the Vanity Fair Oscars after-party to accuse OpenAI chief Sam Altman of wilfully allowing his technology to be an agent...

22.03.2026 40

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

A smackdown for the ages at the Oscars after-party, and AI was the spark

A successful playwright chose the Vanity Fair Oscars after-party to accuse OpenAI chief Sam Altman of wilfully allowing his technology to be an agent...

22.03.2026 30

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

A smackdown for the ages at the Oscars after-party, and AI was the spark

A successful playwright chose the Vanity Fair Oscars after-party to accuse OpenAI chief Sam Altman of wilfully allowing his technology to be an agent...

22.03.2026 40

The Age

Maureen Dowd

A smackdown for the ages at the Oscars after-party, and AI was the spark

A successful playwright chose the Vanity Fair Oscars after-party to accuse OpenAI chief Sam Altman of wilfully allowing his technology to be an agent...

22.03.2026 20

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

How this Kennedy drama has flipped the Camelot script

A new dramatised series tracing the romance, wedding and stunningly sad death of JFK Jr and Carolyn Bessette has found unexpected audiences.

16.03.2026 40

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

How this Kennedy drama has flipped the Camelot script

A new dramatised series tracing the romance, wedding and stunningly sad death of JFK Jr and Carolyn Bessette has found unexpected audiences.

16.03.2026 60

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

How this Kennedy drama has flipped the Camelot script

A new dramatised series tracing the romance, wedding and stunningly sad death of JFK Jr and Carolyn Bessette has found unexpected audiences.

16.03.2026 60

The Age

Maureen Dowd

How this Kennedy drama has flipped the Camelot script

A new dramatised series tracing the romance, wedding and stunningly sad death of JFK Jr and Carolyn Bessette has found unexpected audiences.

16.03.2026 30

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

The Kristi Noem saga is MAGA’s ‘Wuthering Heights’

Sacked homeland security secretary Kristi Noem and staffer Corey Lewandowski cavorted over the swamp and scandalised the capital.

09.03.2026 30

Financial Review

Maureen Dowd

Forget Margot and Jacob, this is Wuthering Heights, MAGA-style

A Washington scandal involving sex is never very sexy but this one has echoes of Emily Bronte’s classic.

08.03.2026 40

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd

Forget Margot and Jacob, this is Wuthering Heights, MAGA-style

A Washington scandal involving sex is never very sexy but this one has echoes of Emily Bronte’s classic.

08.03.2026 30

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

Forget Margot and Jacob, this is Wuthering Heights, MAGA-style

A Washington scandal involving sex is never very sexy but this one has echoes of Emily Bronte’s classic.

08.03.2026 60

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

Forget Margot and Jacob, this is Wuthering Heights, MAGA-style

A Washington scandal involving sex is never very sexy but this one has echoes of Emily Bronte’s classic.

08.03.2026 60

The Age

Maureen Dowd

Trump’s in a presidential pickle as the Supreme Court finds a spine

The US Supreme Court has finally stood to up the “emperor of chaos”. Is this a turning point in Trump’s presidency?

22.02.2026 30

The Age

Maureen Dowd

Trump’s in a presidential pickle as the Supreme Court finds a spine

The US Supreme Court has finally stood to up the “emperor of chaos”. Is this a turning point in Trump’s presidency?

22.02.2026 30

WA Today

Maureen Dowd

Trump’s in a presidential pickle as the Supreme Court finds a spine

The US Supreme Court has finally stood to up the “emperor of chaos”. Is this a turning point in Trump’s presidency?

22.02.2026 100

The Sydney Morning Herald

Maureen Dowd

Trump’s in a presidential pickle as the Supreme Court finds a spine

The US Supreme Court has finally stood to up the “emperor of chaos”. Is this a turning point in Trump’s presidency?

22.02.2026 30

Brisbane Times

Maureen Dowd