October 4, 2023
Oiling the Chicken Machine
In her community, it’s common knowledge that my mom is a soft touch when it comes to chickens. She maintains a motley...
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July 14, 2023
Missing the Manhattan Project
Once upon a time, Americans followed the science. Bunsen burners burned, data clustered dutifully, hypotheses rose and...
July 3, 2023
Resistance in the Arts
It is the Year of Our Lord 1672, and you are an elderly Londoner. At your birth Queen Elizabeth sat on the throne, but...
July 3, 2023
The Masking Debate We Didn’t Have
“Mask Up DC” signs are still visible in the windows of some businesses around Washington, D.C. Are these signs...
July 3, 2023
How Congress Was Saved
Not so long ago, Congress was a place where good ideas went to die, consumed as it was by the worst kind of partisan...
July 3, 2023
Culture War as Imitation Game
The French social theorist René Girard, born in 1923, is not quite yet a household name, but his work does...
July 3, 2023
Sam Altman Doesn’t Want To Be Your AI King
Sam Altman sits slightly slouched in his chair, taking the interviewer’s questions like punches in the face. He looks...
July 3, 2023
The Speech of the Dead
One of the more unsettling political ads of 2020 came from Change the Ref, a nonprofit founded by the parents of...
July 3, 2023
How the State Built This AI Moment
“The horse has not merely bolted; it is halfway down the road and picking up speed — and no one is sure where...
July 3, 2023
Why I Fired My AI Agent
I am a college student, and students are using ChatGPT — a lot. We may say that we’re not, and for some that may be...