On Digital Queerness: A Conversation with Chris Stedman
Matt Wille interviews Chris Stedman on the intersections between queerness, the internet, and the search for a real self....
The Machine Stops: Science and Its Limits
Henry M. Cowles evaluates "The Knowledge Machine," the new book by Michael Strevens....
Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated
Reviewing “On the Fringe,” Suman Seth uses 18th-century theories of putrefaction to show how flimsy the line between science and pseudoscience can be....
Technology and Politics Are Inseparable: An Interview with Cory Doctorow
In this conversation about his new novel, “Attack Surface,” Cory Doctorow imagines a path toward mending the broken systems that shape our lives....
A Premature Eulogy for Privacy
Evan Selinger vehemently argues against the tenets of Firmin DeBrabander’s “Life After Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society.”...
Beyond Bias: The Case for an Abolitionist Psychology
Implicit bias training does not curb racism in police departments. And yet the fantasy persists that this is the way to address antiblack police violence....
Digital Immortality
Is online memory preservation a form of healthy grieving or digital necrophilia?...
Sabotage Can Be Done Softly: On Andreas Malm’s “How to Blow Up a Pipeline”
Scott W. Stern reviews "How to Blow Up a Pipeline," the new book from Andreas Malm....
No Safe Options: A Conversation with Andreas Malm
Should climate activism embrace strategic violence such as the destruction of corporate property?...
A Storied Path: On Mark Plotkin’s “The Amazon: What Everyone Needs to Know”
Gary Paul Nabhan delights in the stories gathered in conservationist Mark J. Plotkin’s new book....
The Life Ironic: The Pricks of Science and Art
A Wes Anderson devotee reminds the author of his young self and the sorts of sensibilities (science- and art-related) for which others have to pay....
Unmaking California’s Central Valley
Water piped in from elsewhere has performed a peculiar kind of magic in California’s Central Valley, writes Sayd Randle. That magic is now dimming....
