December 28, 2022
How to Make Friends
First, I get coffee. If there’s no line, I’ll lean, elbows at the counter, getting an update on the barista’s...
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December 28, 2022
Driven Apart
We are in the midst of a reconsideration of the automobile. Cities experimenting with carless downtowns make the rounds...
December 28, 2022
The Joy of Losing Your Phone
Clare Coffey on why we still need the kindness of strangers
December 28, 2022
A Humanism of the Abyss
At a moment when people who don’t share our identity feel alien, Oliver Sacks’s classic book about reaching...
December 23, 2022
The Long Delay Is Nearly Over
George Jetson is alive. No, not literally, of course. But in the world of the famous 1960s TV series, set in 2062,...
December 22, 2022
Can There Be a Conservative Futurism?
The retreat from time is not a winning answer to our tech malaise.
December 22, 2022
Who’s Afraid of Cowardice?
We’re brain-fried on superhero fistfights. It’s time to learn from heroes who run away.
December 22, 2022
Arcs of Life
Is pain good or bad? The answer seems obvious at first — pain is bad, you idiot, or did you fall asleep in class the...
December 15, 2022
No Other Options
Documents show how MAID helps the poor and disabled to a “beautiful” death
September 1, 2022
Middle Seat to the Moon
How to keep the thrill alive once billionaires make space travel routine