Democracy by the Book
Antón Barba-Kay
Part of the political bizarreness of our time comes from the fact that the possibility of data’s neutrality is rarely disputed as such.
The Word Made Lifeless
Talbot Brewer
The development of AI reads less like a familiar chapter from the history of consumer capitalism and more like the storyboard of a Bond film in which we’ve all been cast as extras.
Digesting Dante
Richard Hughes Gibson
Dante invented not only the epic in his vernacular but also a new reading public for it.
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Of Continuing Interest
A selection of articles from the archives
Preserving the Wilderness Idea
Brian Treanor
Calling the idea of wilderness into question makes as much sense as asking whether the United States is a democracy.
The Return of the King
Philip S. Gorski
We see the peculiar features of neoauthoritarianism as quite real modern-day reincarnations of the ancient tradition of divine kingship.
Beyond the Market
Gerald J. Russello
Rogan’s book is a welcome step toward uncovering and building up a tradition of alternative economics, one in which economics is not a value-free discipline, but, rather, is shaped by social customs, expectations, and values.