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Our nihilistic politics are a product of the crushing ennui and spiritual vacancy of modern life.
Silicon Valley has everything to gain from a public that is ready to believe anything. But whether a radica…
Amid a confounding mix of hype and genuinely valuable innovation, today’s entrepreneurs, scientists, and othe…
An excerpt from How to Think About Progress on the perils of technological futurism
Now that we are in another wave of hype about technology and its potential to cause widespread job displaceme…
How people spend their time is a fundamental mark of civilization.
Like those forecasting a millennial lifespan or an AI singularity, Elon Musk is in the mythology business. As…
Based on our own firsthand experience of the present, we can assume that, on average, people in the past were…
The trouble with our metaphorical wars is that they seek definitive solutions to fluid problems. Such is the …
Conjuring the image of an “inflection point” is a favored device among those who want us to believe that we a…
Nicholas Agar and Stuart Whatley write that -- while the Covid vaccine trials continue to produce hopeful new…
Will our means continue to dictate our ends?
Like globalist, cosmopolitan has become a freighted term.
WHY DOES ONE spring clean, declutter, or otherwise slough off the collected detritus of bygone years? To free…
Yes, economic growth is necessary. But does it produce a just society?
Now that Democrats have reclaimed the U.S. House of Representatives, the jostling over policy and political p…
Having subscribed to the doctrine of “disaster capitalism,” critics of Western democratic socialism fear a st…
Since Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Democratic primary victory in New York’s 14th Congressional District, the qu…
The passing of Initiative 77 tomorrow would mean the political recognition of a value that restaurant owners …
Market forces are invading the space for leisure. Defending it will require nothing less than a return to rob…
Leisure has long been regarded as a residual to work. But it hasn’t always been as neglected as it is today.
Now that Donald Trump has challenged democratic institutions, violated American values of tolerance and openn…
If the Democrats are now conducting an election post mortem, they should consider taking a new approach to ed…
Sooner or later, developed countries are going to have to reassess their obsession with full-time employment—…
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