Quantifying Vitality
Jackson Lears
Statistics in the Progressive Era were more than mere signs of a managerial government’s early efforts to sort and categorize its citizens.
Data and the Task of the Humanities
Leif Weatherby
We have automated the society of clues to act on its own divinations, with consequences far beyond the individual.
O imitators, you slavish herd!
Christopher Sandford
In the event you needed any further bad news in this year of the coronavirus pandemic, you’ll find it in this piercing, distressing, and shaming account of our tendency to follow the herd.
Current Issue
Of Continuing Interest
A selection of articles from the archives
Do Women Exist?
Mary Townsend
We American women do now find ourselves in a bit of an existential predicament with regard to the being-ness of being a woman.
A Word on Behalf of Good Haters
Jeffrie G. Murphy
Since some hatred seems universal among human beings, the emotion probably was once evolutionarily advantageous.
On Frank Speech
Matthew B. Crawford
The role of frank speech in democratic culture is something worth considering, especially in light of the renewed ferment over political correctness.