Far from being consigned to the ash heap of intellectual fashions, the structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss, a new biography shows, is in many ways still with us. | Continue reading
How neoliberals and conservatives came together to undo the welfare state. | Continue reading
Hannah Arendt’s unfinished book on Marx offers a timely philosophical dialogue for our era of economic precarity. | Continue reading
Many visions of the future proliferate in Silicon Valley. Which one is worth fighting for? | Continue reading
“On that tragic Saturday only his body was smashed.” | Continue reading
Poets, philosophers, playwrights. | Continue reading
For the philosopher and intellectual historian Hans Blumenberg, myths and metaphors were pivotal to philosophical thinking, not opposed to it. | Continue reading
A decade after the financial crisis, economists still have not rethought macroeconomics. A new history takes on the field's unrepentant hubris. | Continue reading
The opioid crisis and the War on Drugs are intertwined in the mutually reinforcing framework of racial capitalism. | Continue reading
For the philosopher and intellectual historian Hans Blumenberg, myths and metaphors were pivotal to philosophical thinking, not opposed to it. | Continue reading
Reputational currency, like China's Social Credit Score, rebrands repression as rational nudging. And these algorithmic governance models are spreading. | Continue reading
Reputational currency, like China's Social Credit Score, rebrands repression as rational nudging. And these algorithmic governance models are spreading. | Continue reading
What does it mean to live in a world in which history has rusted under the monstrous weight of the permanent now? | Continue reading
What does it mean to live in a world in which history has rusted under the monstrous weight of the permanent now? | Continue reading
Quantification shapes how we think about public policy—often for the worse. | Continue reading
Business schools fetishize entrepreneurial innovation, but their most prominent heroes succeeded because they manipulated corporate law, not because of personal brilliance. | Continue reading
Economics needs to embrace a transdisciplinary approach. | Continue reading
Global capitalism is no longer simply characterized by uneven development, it is characterized by uneven disaster. | Continue reading
Silicon Valley has turned the problem of marine plastic waste into yet another avenue for “disruption.” But why should clean oceans have to make good business sense? | Continue reading
It is impossible to divorce nature from human influence. Can that influence be democratic? | Continue reading
The problem with building public spheres from above, online or offline, is much like that of building Frankenstein’s monsters: we may not like the end product. | Continue reading
Tech billionaires love to declare the death of liberal arts, but could they instead be the future of Silicon Valley? | Continue reading
From the bisexual demimonde of prewar Paris to investigating Soviet war crimes, Józef Czapski’s life encapsulates the highs and lows of twentieth-century Europe. | Continue reading
Critics of The Bell Curve have attacked every point in the book—except the most important one. | Continue reading
We have surrendered the cherished value of “innocent until proven guilty” for the security logic that we are all “risky until proven safe.” | Continue reading
The patent war for DNA-editing technology | Continue reading
In the era of digital neighborhoods, social networks embolden a new kind of racial surveillance. | Continue reading
Hair tests, bite marks, blood spatter: it’s mostly magic. | Continue reading
Jean-Paul Sartre’s existential Marxism offers a radical philosophical foundation for today’s revitalized critiques of capitalism. | Continue reading
How we went from “racist” to “racially tinged.” | Continue reading
In the 1970s, a bloc of Third World states forced the United Nations to take seriously the unequal distribution of global wealth. Could their example inspire a new generation? | Continue reading
Many visions of the future proliferate in Silicon Valley. Which one is worth fighting for? | Continue reading
1.2% of the GDP. That's all it would take to green the economy. | Continue reading
The recurring, and often conflicting, narratives of technology and progress. | Continue reading
Second in our series on new experiments at CERN. | Continue reading
Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman transformed how we think about economics and human behavior. | Continue reading
Apple—now worth a trillion dollars—redistributes more wealth upward than any country or corporation on the planet. | Continue reading
Thanks to its relatively robust federalism, Yugoslavia produced a thrilling variety of buildings—frequently departing from the prefabricated monotony of the Eastern Bloc. | Continue reading
Nothing stretches our thinking about the mind the way an octopus does. | Continue reading
DNA is a powerful forensic tool. If only crime labs could be trusted with it. | Continue reading
Of the pioneers who drove the information technology revolution, Claude Shannon may have been the most brilliant. A new book resurrects his legacy. | Continue reading
No dead guys with beards in this reading list, we promise. | Continue reading
It's time to rewrite the narrative of “Trump Country.” Rural places weren't always red, and many are turning increasingly blue. | Continue reading
A new book wants us to navigate life’s crossroads with the precision of a military exercise. But personal decisions are more difficult than even the most consequential political decisions. | Continue reading
A new book wants us to navigate life’s crossroads with the precision of a military exercise. But personal decisions are more difficult than even the most consequential political decisions. | Continue reading
A group seeking to ban affirmative action has sued Harvard for discriminating against Asian Americans. The core issues won't be resolved by statistics alone. | Continue reading