Where the Critics of Liberalism Go Wrong
Postliberalism comes to embody a form of cultural criticism that ultimately does not believe in culture itself.
Why Lecture?
It’s easy to see how lectures got a bad rap. We have all been subjected to someone who abused the privilege of an audience.
Looking Under the Hood of AI’s Dubious Models
Posted on August 11, 2021
Image: Oak Ridge National Laboratory super computer. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Models are only valuable in the long run if we are free to take them apart.
In the Sideshadows
Posted on August 3, 2021
Image: Slunce v lese by Antonín Slavíček. Gallery of Modern Art in Roudnice nad Labem. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Everyone contributes to the pandemic, so all bear responsibility.
Finding Fukuyama’s Ends
Western liberal democracy is something worth aspiring to—an optimal destiny, not an imminent fate.
Changing Times
Once upon a time there was a publication that was doing all it could to tell a straight story and to listen to all sides.