Triumph breeds hubris. Defeat breeds grievance. Either way, from World War II to Afghanistan, America has fueled a cycle that never ends.
Robert Jay Lifton, Neta C. Crawford, and Matthew Evangelista | Mar 9
Roger Mayne and Stuart Hall's complementary visions reveal how racial animus in London reflected a deeper post-war crisis of whiteness and masculine identity.
Nicholas Mirzoeff | Mar 5
Historians often reinforce evolutionist narratives that rank civilizations and nationalize invention.
Gregory Dreicer | Feb 26
How bathing spaces, long treated as sterile utilities, can become architectures of intimacy, accessibility, and embodied liberation.
Christie Pearson | Feb 24
Tracing the boundaries of reason through Lucretius and Descartes, and what they reveal about the cognitive limits of both humans and machines.
Andrea Moro | Feb 17
Microgravity, radiation, and extreme climates pose ethical and biological challenges that researchers are racing to overcome.
Scott Solomon | Feb 12
The idea that it’s “too late” to reduce emissions fuels cynicism and despair, putting us on an even worse trajectory.
Hannah Ritchie | Feb 9
A decade on, the technological implications of “The Stack” are still unfolding, challenging our sense of reality at every scale.
Benjamin H. Bratton | Feb 5
Scientists, novelists, and philosophers have spent centuries studying the boundaries between sleep and wakefulness. Each descent only deepens the mystery.
Antonio Melechi | Feb 2
Tech titans keep imbuing AI with spiritual significance. The question is whether they’re building a savior — or a world-eating leviathan.
Shira Chess | Jan 29
