Uncovering the political and philosophical aspirations of the scientific enterprise
Broke, raving, and living out of his van, for years Jack Kevorkian turned away from his first love — experiments with death — to a side quest: bringing Jesus Christ to the big screen.
Paul Kingsnorth’s critique of technologized modernity is frustratingly broad. That doesn’t mean he’s wrong.
Our ancestors built grand public systems to conquer hunger, thirst, darkness, and squalor. That progress can be lost if we forget it.
From megastructures in the Arabian Desert to urban decay close to home, we are pulled between utopian and dystopian visions of the modern city. Sci-fi novelist William Gibson offers a more likely scenario.
You say “jetpacks,” I say “cabin in the woods,” let’s call the whole thing off.
The right’s new love of technological progress isn’t a good enough answer to the left’s progressive ideology. What are they both missing?
Marc Andreessen wants us to go faster. But what does that matter if nobody’s left in the car?
The American dream has always meant living in our own fantasy worlds. Maybe it’s time to really go for it.
Effective altruism asked us to do more good by becoming less human.
