The Masking Debate We Didn’t Have
The Covid establishment saw masking policies as purely scientific. Now critics are making the same mistake.
What is science’s rightful place? How should we govern technology?
The Covid establishment saw masking policies as purely scientific. Now critics are making the same mistake.
A report from the year 2039 on how the spirit of efficiency reformed a once-maligned institution
...but he might be anyway.
Predictions of AI apocalypse suffer the classic egghead blunder: they overrate the power of raw intelligence.
One brilliant madwoman’s quest to show that the Bard’s works were secretly penned by the father of science, at war with his own creation
In Neal Stephenson’s sci-fi, democracy is an obstacle to Muskian great men saving us all.
The failure of a mega-popular critique of climate science shows why we need a third option in the debate.
Why technocratic tyranny made allies of traditionalism and libertarianism
The crisis mindset is a finite resource — and we’ve exhausted it. From Covid to climate change, we need a new way to manage chronic problems.