Matthew B. Crawford writes the Substack Archedelia and is a senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. His books include Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road, The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction, and the best-selling Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work.
COVID made visible the usually subterranean core of the liberal project, which is not merely political but anthropological.
We hear it said a lot these days: white privilege, male privilege, cisgender privilege
The role of frank speech in democratic culture is something worth considering, especially in light of the renewed ferment over political correctness.
This is a fertile time in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science for thinking about attention.
We have too few occasions to do anything because of a certain pre-determination of things from afar.
There are certain kinds of work that thwart the logic of remote control.
A lesson in what it takes to be a father, and why a kid might want to have one.
According to current usage, privilege means something like good fortune.