In our globalized economy, the death of a technology can be more interesting than its life. | Continue reading
Genre fiction often struggles to balance the appeal of its subject matter with the demands of storytelling. | Continue reading
“Now more than ever, we need cities to grow,” writes Nolan Gray in a new book. | Continue reading
Catholic theologian Ulrich Lehner demolishes Moralistic Therapeutic Deism | Continue reading
The managerial class props up the devalued diploma. Only a paradigm shift can end the grift. | Continue reading
Archbishop Cordelione's decision to bar Nancy Pelosi from the Eucharist is a faithful application of Church teaching and an act of mercy to the Speaker of the House. | Continue reading
When gambling—excuse me, “gaming”—was normalized, we lost a vital moral dimension to our ideas of political economy. | Continue reading
Anything can happen, but Putin "losing" in Ukraine seems among the most unlikely of scenarios. | Continue reading
Vladimir Putin did exactly what he warned us he would do. | Continue reading
Much has been written over the past year about how Amazon treats its warehouse workers and other employees and its attempts to prevent their unionization. | Continue reading
Munger Hall, with its attempt at social engineering, really will be a dorm that reflects the philosophies of our time. | Continue reading
The objectification of celebrities, working in tandem with technology and PR, is drawing us further from reality than ever before. | Continue reading
Identity as it now defines our discourse found its origins not in the ivory tower but in the realm of online fandom. | Continue reading
Vaccines, masks, and social distance don't count for much if you were never healthy to begin with. | Continue reading
Thoughts that are increasingly unthinkable online may yet find success via handbilling, door-knocking, and person-to-person conversations. | Continue reading
Fredrik deBoer's criticisms of America's counterproductive education system will be familiar to many on the right. | Continue reading
When the politics of race come into play, black lives cease to matter. | Continue reading
The FBI continues to lawlessly use counterintelligence powers against American citizens. | Continue reading
Leaked recordings from Yemen further indicate that "the bin Laden of the Internet" was a U.S. government asset. | Continue reading
A new book detailing the psychic conflicts in the Soviet Writers' Union is a cautionary tale as much as a remarkable history. | Continue reading
Following a year-long committee investigation that uncovered a trove of disturbing findings about how Big Tech’s predatory practices appear to stifle | Continue reading
In our globalized economy, the death of a technology can be more interesting than its life. | Continue reading
You won't believe how minor the fired science journalist's offenses were | Continue reading
The WallStreetBets play was fueled by nostalgia, but modern, digital-only gaming leaves fewer opportunities to plant those seeds. | Continue reading
Forget Libya—the Obama alumna was an absolute disaster in Asian affairs. That alone should disqualify her for Secretary of State. | Continue reading
Google is curiously upping the ante in their long history of legal challenges by taking the DOJ head-on. | Continue reading
Big Tech censor accuses satirical website repeating old Monty Python joke of inciting violence. No, really, they did! | Continue reading
The military-industrial complex greases supposedly neutral US think tanks to the tune of over $1 billion a year | Continue reading
The famed Russian dissident reflects on why he could not become an American citizen, in an excerpt never before published in English. | Continue reading
The focus on making a lucrative exit causes concentration in Silicon Valley, and helps create monopolies | Continue reading
Contra the Trump-Carson WSJ op-ed, this is not a left-right issue. | Continue reading
From his perch in the early 60's, the otherwise prescient screenwriter was ill-equipped to foretell today's Orwellian menace. | Continue reading
Suburbia is built on federal subsidies. Is that conservative? | Continue reading
A smarter way to push back against both debt-based Chinese financing, and American hawks urging military action. | Continue reading
When the lure of the sea (and an affordable luxury vacation) is stronger than the fear of pandemic. | Continue reading
Rather than burning and looting, protesters should turn their ire on lawmakers and judges who facilitate police immunity. | Continue reading
Only official government teaching on the pandemic allowed | Continue reading
The pre-totalitarian politicization of Covid-19 | Continue reading
Higher education reform requires a re-industrialized economy, and perhaps a move away from college. | Continue reading
Higher Education counts on a huge chunk of that tuition each year, prompting a mad scramble to keep it together. | Continue reading
Stephen Kinzer's new book shows how Greatest Generation spooks justified their horrific experiments on unwitting Americans. | Continue reading
How often the sword of righteousness was used to justify dark ops and human experimentation. | Continue reading
In the frantic search for someone or something to blame, Trump gets the brunt. But we had two pandemics to get this right. | Continue reading
Yes, the very wealthy will survive, but many of us may end up more dependent on the state than we ever bargained for. | Continue reading
The highly consolidated system is fragile, and this is where local farming can step in. | Continue reading
Governments have always exploited crises to expand their powers. | Continue reading
These schools serve only a fraction of Americans, but they raise $44B a year through endowments and guzzle mightily from the federal trough. | Continue reading
We don't make things anymore, including our own medicines. What happens when our dependence on globalization is really put to the test? | Continue reading