In C.P. Snow’s day, literary intellectuals were the cultural elite. Now the power dynamic has been reversed: STEM dominates the culture
Read the full article which is published on Arts and Letters Daily (external link)Foucault’s critique of power and knowledge shaped poststructuralism, yet its rejection of truth risks becoming its own orthodoxy. To remain...
This is Part 4 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
This is Part 3 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
This is Part 2 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
philosophybits: “There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that...
Sumerian tablets, Soviet cybernetics, Google server banks — human history can be seen via our ever more elaborate data apparatuses
Babitz bubbles, Renata revivals, Hardwick hurricanes: How NYRB Classics built its name by resurrecting old and overlooked novelists
Broke and in search of a sinecure, Edgar Allan Poe went to Washington in 1843 to try to meet the...
