In the Belly of the Beast: How The Whale Encapsulates Modern Ecology
Ferris Jabr plumbs the depths of “Fathoms: The World in the Whale,” the new book by Rebecca Giggs....
Screwing Up Is What We Do
Dave Mandl examines Tom Phillips’s book “Humans,” which details the many ways we’ve screwed up....
Bending Toward the Storm: On Andy Horowitz’s “Katrina: A History, 1915–2015”
Scott Stern reviews a new book that unpacks New Orleans’s history of mishandling storm readiness....
Connected
In its dark way, the pandemic affirms Darwin’s point about the elemental connectivity of life, for good and ill....
A Technology of Manifest Destiny: Sam Colt’s Revolver
Historian of technology Lee Vinsel reviews Jim Rasenberger’s new book, “Revolver: Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America.”...
On Technodiversity: A Conversation with Yuk Hui
A major philosopher of science on different paths to modernity, the openness of the future, and the fallacies of transhumanism....
Energy Policy: Will Special Interest Groups Short-Circuit Our Future?
Daniel Wuebben argues that Leah Stokes’s “Short Circuiting Policy” establishes her as a voice to heed on energy policy and the transition to renewables....
The Online Pivot: California’s Cultural Institutions Adjust to the New Reality
Sophia Stewart samples the online offerings of California’s cultural institutions, which are working hard to keep art alive during the pandemic....
A Stimulus Plan for the Planet
Can the planet withstand another carbon bomb disguised as an infrastructure package? Billy Fleming reviews "A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal."...
Pandemic Narratives and the Historian
Alex Langstaff interviews an international group of leading historians of public health, epidemics, and disaster science....
“A Dreadful Plague in London Was”
What Daniel Defoe’s “A Journal of the Plague Year” can teach us about the COVID-19 pandemic....
Symphonies Silenced, Sonatas Streamed: The State of Classical Music During COVID-19
Melissa Chan considers the state of classical music in the age of coronavirus....
