As Paul Pfanner receives the SPMJ Russo-Marvel Founders Award, he offers a meditation on learning, proximity, and who journalists actually work for.

The greatest performers in every field share one discipline: the capacity to operate fully in the present moment under real consequence. Two new words name what they practiced — and what the forces reshaping modern life are designed to prevent.

Everyone says the future belongs to whoever moves fastest. Racing has always known something different. In the AI era, confidence is outrunning understanding — and that gap has a cost.