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Seeing Like a Simulation
Reviewing Chaim Gingold’s “Building SimCity,” Celine Nguyen finds similarities between tech billionaires’ attempts to build a utopian city in Solano, California, and being a godlike player in “SimCity.”
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein
The Most Moral Army
Mary Turfah examines Israeli officials’ weaponization of language, particularly that of medicine, in an attempt to reframe their genocide in Gaza.
The DNA Dreams of the New Eugenics
In the fourth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Patricia Williams explores how “new-genics” projects encode social bias.
Breeding for IQ
Emily R. Klancher Merchant examines the growing enthusiasm among tech elites for genetically engineering their children, in the third essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series.
The “Twaddle” in Finance
In his review of “Poor Charlie's Almanack,” Dave Mandl delights in Charles T. Munger’s skewering of contemporary investing and business practices.
Commendable Snitches
Gordon Marino considers “The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No” by Carl Elliott.
Meeting as Wonderstruck Kin
Marissa Grunes reviews Renée Bergland’s “Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science.”
The “Correlation” Between Statistics and Eugenics
In the second essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Aubrey Clayton excavates the troubling correlation between the birth of statistical methods and the history of eugenics.
The Last Avant-Garde
Alexander Billet reviews Dominique Routhier’s “With and Against: The Situationist International in the Age of Automation.”
Keeping Up with the Klimate
Hannah Bonner connects Kōhei Saitō’s book “Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto” to Sara Sowell’s short film “Color Negative” by way of the Kardashians.
Sacralizing Nature: On Marcelo Gleiser’s “The Dawn of a Mindful Universe”
Paolo Musso believes the work of an open-minded, bighearted scientist like Marcelo Gleiser is of paramount importance to our future.
Transcendent Luminescence, Ravaging Flames: On Alexander Kriss’s “Borderline”
Mala Chatterjee reads Alexander Kriss’s “Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder” in the context of her own borderline diagnosis.
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