Technosolutionism Isn’t the Fix
Christine Rosen
We shouldn’t assume that the measures we take to combat the coronavirus today are temporary.
Whose Humanities?
Edward Tenner
The humanities may have suddenly mattered more than ever, but their support was also as fragile as it had been for decades.
Demystifying Tech
Megan Marz
By suggesting that the constant resetting is all there is, disruption becomes “a theodicy of hypercapitalism,” a kind of “newness for people who are scared of genuine newness.”
To Forgive Us Our Trespasses…
Nancy Isenberg
In the words of retired Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy, “a people confident in its laws and institutions should not be ashamed of mercy.”
Current Issue
Of Continuing Interest
A selection of articles from the archives
The New Anti-Intellectualism
Andrew Piper
Never before has it been so fashionable to be against numerical thinking.
In Me We Trust
Donna Dickenson
What we are actually witnessing in the genetic enclosure movement is the tragedy of the anti-commons.
Capitalism and Our Moral Imagination
Eugene McCarraher
Markets and property systems are related, but they are not the same: markets are about exchange and money; property about ownership and power.
The Romance of the Rebel
Edward J.K. Gitre
What is provocative is Hale’s
claim that the insider-outsider
relationship was, and is, driven
by love.