The Amoeba and the Mathematician
By over-specializing, professionals have unwittingly shrunk their job duties to fit inside a machine’s scope of practice.
Simone Weil Against Distraction
by
April Owens
Posted on October 22, 2025
Image: THR illustration: Simone Weil, Ewa Klos, Agence Opale/Alamy; background: Shutterstock.
For Simone Weil, attention was akin to prayer.
Chatbots and the Divine
We get nowhere near knowing, much less loving, another person through impersonal means.
Liberal Society Isn’t for Everyone
Our society needs a certain kind of person and our society shapes a certain kind of person. How to align the two?
The Disenchantment of Baseball
The strike zone is not reducible to the simple rectangle displayed on TV broadcasts.
Murder in the Posthuman Age
by
Julia Friedman
and
David Hawkes
Posted on September 24, 2025
Image: THR illustration/Shutterstock.
Six centuries after Gutenberg, the Internet has had a malignant effect on the public mind.
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