Donald Trump’s Big Oil bonanza is an environmental disaster — but the industry’s reaction exposes a larger truth about capitalism itself.
Brad Swanson | Mar 26
The data suggest that we tend to reach our most productive years in midlife. They also indicate that quality follows from quantity.
Keith Sawyer | Mar 16
Though wary of organized religion, the physicist believed that the harmony of universal laws pointed to a higher power.
Gerald Holton | Mar 2
Coaling towers are little-known railroad relics that take many forms. But each evokes a subtle grandeur of industrial might.
Jeff Brouws | Feb 23
The federal persecution of immigrants and white citizens alike lays bare the unstable logic of in-group power.
J.M. Berger | Jan 26
The same technology that’s ruining essay writing as a pedagogical tool can help students learn how to reason via conversations.
David Weinberger | Jan 20
We may have ditched the monkey-to-man meme, but the myth of humans as nature’s “pinnacle of evolution” persists in subtler ways.
Prosanta Chakrabarty | Dec 1, 2025
Just as the camera once challenged painters, AI is giving rise to a new kind of creativity.
Danny Oppenheimer | Nov 17, 2025
Don’t forget that food insecurity has long been a feature of Republican politics, not a bug.
Andrew Fisher | Nov 14, 2025
To win the argument for universal basic income, advocates must confront the myth that less work means less worth.
Karl Widerquist | Nov 10, 2025
