Stuart Whatley

Stuart Whatley is a senior editor at Project Syndicate. He has written for CNN, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Baffler, The Christian Science Monitor, The Guardian, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The American Prospect, Free Inquiry, and other outlets.

Articles

The Dream Economy
All the talk of colonizing Mars is a dangerous pipe dream that deflects from the less glamorous task of trying to keep Earth habitable....
Stuart Whatley, Nicholas AgarAug 24, 2021
- Science & Technology
The Inflection Pointillists
Conjuring the image of an “inflection point” is a favored device among those who want us to believe that we are in the midst of a world-historic transformation....
Nicholas Agar, Stuart WhatleyJun 18, 2021
- Science & Technology
Civilization and Its Stuff: On Kyle Chayka’s “The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism”
Stuart Whatley considers “The Longing for Less” by Kyle Chayka....
Stuart WhatleyFeb 10, 2020
- Cultural Studies
Entertain Yourself
What constitutes time well spent?...
Stuart WhatleyMay 18, 2016
- Politics and Economics
Closing Platforms
Stuart Whatley on how the media is using the latest platforms of technology in a way that pulls "the news" from the light of truth and deeper into the cave....
Stuart WhatleyAug 19, 2015
- Politics and Economics
Marginal Millennials
Are young people capable of serving as citizens in an open society, where free and open discourse is the operational sine qua non?...
Stuart WhatleyJun 6, 2015
- Politics and Economics
“A Rather Pathetic Play”: On Public Shaming and the Cult of Censorship
One need not be consumed with the lofty and the sublime, nor the lowly and the savage, to take a few lessons from Wilde on public shaming....
Stuart WhatleyMay 4, 2015
- Politics and Economics
Invest Yourself (Against the Limited Liability Society)
Born an American shareholder....
Stuart WhatleyMar 15, 2015
- Politics and Economics
Apocalypse Then
A book about climate change in the 14th century...
Stuart WhatleyJul 27, 2014
The Magnificent “Accretion of Random Habits”: On Language, Perception, and the World
Language and culture are intrinsically messy, each mixing the practical with the shambolic....
Stuart WhatleyMay 15, 2014
- Cultural Studies
Disrupt Yourself (And Do Us All a Favor)
How does our culture of market-driving neoliberalism disrupt the social safety net around education and health care?...
Stuart WhatleyMar 28, 2014
Speak for Yourself: A Meditation on the Marketplace of Ideas
Can free expression truly be free in a marketplace of ideas?...
Stuart WhatleyOct 4, 2013