May 24, 2009
The True Face of Digital Democracy
Two years ago, Andrew Keen’s The Cult of the Amateur launched a serious debate about the value of blogs and other...
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February 2, 2009
Making Men Modern
You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus,” Mark Twain — a man of keenly...
February 2, 2009
The Great Breath of Hell
What is madness, and how is a civilized liberal society to treat the mad among us? In the name of compassion and...
October 21, 2008
Beyond Mankind
Advocates of human enhancement face many challenges in making their case, not the least of which is that it is still...
October 21, 2008
The Confused Congresswoman
Diana DeGette is a sixth-term Democratic congresswoman from Colorado’s first district, and the Democrats’...
October 21, 2008
Green Bridge to Nowhere
James Gustave “Gus” Speth is the consummate environmental insider. For over thirty years he has played a key role...
August 13, 2008
We Are the Change We’ve Been Waiting For
Facebook, one of the most popular social networking websites, reaches millions of young people who share, collect, and...
August 13, 2008
The World Made New
The term “metaverse” in reference to multiplayer virtual worlds was first coined in Neal Stephenson’s...
August 13, 2008
The Brat Pack of Quantum Mechanics
Who can ever tire of learning about the great discoveries in physics during the first forty years of the twentieth...
August 13, 2008
The Prudence of Neuroscience
René Descartes opens his Discourse on Method with the ironic joke that “good sense is the best distributed thing in...