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
On Attentional Norms
Zoom is a medium that offers constant permission to be distracted.
An Unlikely Meditation on Modern Happiness
by
Ryan Kemp
Posted on February 3, 2022
Image: The Sacrifice of Isaac. Wellcome Collection. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Well, then, why—on Kierkegaard’s view—would anyone choose a life of faith?