How Smart Tech Tried to Solve the Mental Health Crisis and Only Made It Worse
Big data can’t save us from mental distresses and disorders.
The Coming Clarifications
We’ll have to confront the chasm between our self-conception and our actual behavior
Podcast: Political Mythologies
A conversation about the role of mythmaking in modern politics.
To Have and Have Not
It is true that a thin plastic device that displays pixels doesn’t make much of a mess, but then, it is also true that life is messy.
The Making of an Everyday Object in a High-Tech World
Posted on February 18, 2022
Image: Worker at Amazon Logistics Center in Madrid, Spain; Álvaro Ibáñez via Wikimedia Commons.
Just as Mims worries now over the unfulfilling tedium of employment at Amazon, Smith worried over the deleterious effects of monotonous work.
The Unintended Consequences of Christian Politics
Mainline Protestant ministries to migrants had unintentionally opened the door to their diminished cultural dominance