Uncovering the political and philosophical aspirations of the scientific enterprise
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”
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
Why the swamp and its drainers were both blind to the threat
The origins of our “health society” and why holistic medicine doesn’t catch on
