Jonathan D. Teubner is research associate at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University and contributing editor of The Hedgehog Review.
The rot in our technology culture is managerialism, which is to say the belief that a business can be abstracted into its financial components, each of which is subject to principles of scientific management.
The historian is our most modern of all scholars.
Have we actually shifted the cost to those who take outsized risks?
Social media desperately requires innovation.
A historian charts the evolution of her own center-right liberalism.
We are coming to see our world as increasingly discontinuous with the twentieth century.
The post-Auschwitz consensus that made overt anti-Semitism strictly forbidden is rapidly fading.
Emboldened by the Revolution of 1848 and by later attempts by the dominant Protestant church to purify itself, German secularists began to craft their beliefs, behavior, and sense of belonging along the lines of a Konfession.
Far from being the hope of cosmopolitan liberal democracy, Europe is experiencing a reemergence of the national identities and antagonisms that European values and the union they were meant to bring about were supposed to prevent.
Could it be otherwise? Probably not, at least at the moment.
It is time for the tech world to start thinking institutionally.
Our world is increasingly discontinuous with the twentieth century.