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Bryan Walsh

Bryan Walsh

Senior Editorial Director, Future Perfect, Climate, Unexplainable and The Gray Area

    Latest articles by Bryan Walsh

    Future Perfect
    How the relentless drive for optimization made baseball impossible to watchHow the relentless drive for optimization made baseball impossible to watch
    Future Perfect

    The unlikely similarity between modern baseball and the AI boom.

    By Bryan Walsh
    Future Perfect
    Inside the Italian villa that launched some of the world’s great philanthropic programsInside the Italian villa that launched some of the world’s great philanthropic programs
    Future Perfect

    For more than 60 years, the Rockefeller Foundation has hosted scientists, academics, and artists for a unique summer program.

    By Bryan Walsh
    Against doomerism
    The Highlight

    It’s boom times for doom times but there’s plenty of reason to be optimistic that the future will be better — if we make it so.

    By Bryan Walsh
    The doomers are wrong about humanity’s future — and its past
    The Highlight

    The necessity of progress.

    By Bryan Walsh
    Future Perfect
    The key to Covid’s origin lies in Beijing, not WuhanThe key to Covid’s origin lies in Beijing, not Wuhan
    Future Perfect

    A new analysis on Covid-19 origins has promise, but only the Chinese government can end the debate.

    By Bryan Walsh
    The other long Covid: The damage done to a generation of schoolchildren
    The Highlight

    The pandemic took young people’s present. What will it do to their future?

    By Bryan Walsh
    Yes, you can have kids and fight climate change at the same time
    The Highlight

    The progressive case for population growth.

    By Bryan Walsh
    Future Perfect
    How China came to regret its one-child policyHow China came to regret its one-child policy
    Future Perfect

    Why the world’s most populous country (for now) is experiencing population decline.

    By Bryan Walsh
    Noma’s closing exposes the contradictions of fine dining
    Future Perfect

    Noma, no more.

    By Bryan Walsh
    Future Perfect
    23 things we think will happen in 202323 things we think will happen in 2023
    Future Perfect

    Will Biden and Trump remain the frontrunners? Will Putin remain in charge of Russia? Will China start a war? These and other forecasts of the year to come.

    By Bryan Walsh, Dylan Matthews and 2 more