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.
A trip down the California coast has an aspect of memory and return to it.
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.
If I have to stand on my own two feet, epistemically, how can I be sure that my knowledge really is knowledge?
Liberal public culture is a culture of polite separation.
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.