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Is Social Media a Threat to Democracy?
Allen Mendenhall reviews “Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of Our Democracy” by Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone....
Science & Technology
God’s Ongoing Story: On John Haught’s “God After Einstein”
Paul Allen evaluates John F. Haught’s “God After Einstein.”...
Making a Life’s Work of Death: On Hayley Campbell’s “All the Living and the Dead”
Jeannine Burgdorf reviews Hayley Campbell’s new book “All the Living and the Dead.”...
101 Black Women Poets in Mainly White and Mainly Black Rooms
Marit J. MacArthur and her colleagues dive deep into the particularities of spoken word performance and its reception....
The Making of a Prophet
Pradeep Niroula lauds Alec Nevala-Lee’s new biography, "Inventor of the Future," which soberly fact-checks Buckminster Fuller’s legend....
“The Wondrous Legacy of the Ciliary Hair”: On David George Haskell’s “Sounds Wild and Broken”
Jayson Greene reviews David George Haskell’s new book, “Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction.”...
Dusting Off Our Mirror-Shades: On Matthew Ball’s “The Metaverse”
Paul Dicken reviews Matthew Ball's new book, "The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything."...
Metaverse Myopia
Evan Selinger has reservations about the metaverse....
Science, Viruses, and Stories: A Conversation with Joseph Osmundson
Joshua Roebke talks with Joseph Osmundson about his new book, "Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between."...
Data in the Hands of Profiteers: A Conversation with Mary F. E. Ebeling
Julien Crockett speaks to Mary F. E. Ebeling, author of “Afterlives of Data: Life and Debt Under Capitalist Surveillance.”...
Revising the History of DDT’s Long-Tailed Legacy
Rebecca Altman appreciates Elena Conis’s new book, “How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT.”...
Psychiatric Hubris
DESPERATE REMEDIES, subtitled “Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness,” is a depressing book. Its author, Andrew Scull, is a prominent sociologist and historian of psychiatry and, more broadly, of madness. In one of his previous books, Madness in Civilization, he ...
The Internet Is a Crime Against Humanity
Justin E. H. Smith’s new book, “The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is,” shows how the human dream of telecommunication has been twisted into a nightmare....
The Mother Hen Who Scratches Your Soul: An Appreciation of Paul Farmer
A tribute for a man who wanted to treat health as a human right....
Oncology’s Darwinian Dilemma
A young doctor ponders oncology’s latest dilemma: uncertainty rooted in variation....
Digital Oligarchy
Robert Gorwa reads Jillian York’s “Silicon Values” on digital content moderation in the context of the Ukrainian War....
Surveillance Gone Viral
Evan Selinger lauds David Lyon’s “Pandemic Surveillance” while quibbling with its lack of grounded analysis....
Rescuing Utopianism in a Climate-Changed World
Mathias Thaler argues that utopian thinking has a role to play in addressing the climate crises....
Womb with a View: On the Science of Maternal Effects
Meredith Reiches lauds Sarah Richardson’s “The Maternal Imprint.”...
Arguing About the Origins of Science
Michael Bycroft addresses the latest scholarly rows about where science originated....
Sietchposting: A Short Guide to Recent Work on “Dune”
The “dunescourse” — or “sietchposting,” as it is affectionately called — is vast....
Eugenics
How the history of eugenics informs "Dune."...
Prophecy
The power of Dune, of its Fremen, is rooted in the prophecy....
Ethnography
"Dune" itself is a work of ethnography — a gateway into a new world....
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