A Modest Proposal for Building the Future
Alex Pang thinks he should hate Lee Vinsel and Andrew Russell’s book “The Innovation Delusion.” Instead, he wholeheartedly agrees with their main points....
Fossils Waiting to Be: On Stoicism in the Anthropocene
Max Norman follows "Footprints," the new book by David Farrier....
De Melancholia
Michael S. Roth dissects "The Anatomy of Grief," the new book by Dorothy P. Holinger....
Foggy Notions
W. Patrick McCray on “Rational Fog” by historian M. Susan Lindee. It addresses how “scientific knowledge and military applications meet, maraud, and maim.”...
Childhood: Sifting Facts from Fad-Driven Fancy
Reviewing “The Origins of You,” John G. Simmons touches on issues like how much parents matter and how insights from genetics are revamping old theories....
Getting into Good Medical Trouble
Historian of Medicine Richard Mizelle shows us why John Lewis’s call for getting into “good trouble” needs to be applied to the medical profession....
Quantified Life: An Interview with Sun-Ha Hong
Emily Watlington interviews Sun-Ha Hong about our data fantasies....
Making Art Do Work
Reviewing W. Patrick McCray’s “Making Art Work,” Peter Sachs Collopy argues it can be read as a history of how art became managerial in the 1960s and ’70s...
Evolution Wars: The Saga Continues
Jessica Riskin offers a revisionist history of evolutionary biology....
There’s Something About These Dolphins
Patrick House on the difference between reality and virtual reality, and what it means for identity, memory, autobiography, and therapy....
Transcending Gravity: The View from Postcolonial Dhaka to Colonies in Space
Reviewing Fred Scharmen’s “Space Settlements,” historian of technology Asif Siddiqi describes how modernist architects have engaged with utopias in space....
The Stories Michael Shellenberger Tells
Michael Shellenberger wants us to believe environmentalists are impeding our ability to solve environmental problems....
