Uncovering the political and philosophical aspirations of the scientific enterprise
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
Cheese, curry, beer: We can thank our ancestors who put food scraps to creative use. What we’re leaving our children is garbage.
Jacques Ellul on escaping the totalizing grip of “technique”
America’s defining cultural artifact is the economics white paper.
Why Claude Lévi-Strauss celebrated every culture but his own
On the unified cosmic vision of Alexander von Humboldt, the nineteenth century’s great naturalist-adventurer
How blurring the line between science and technology puts both at risk
