Glen Campbell, who was a member of The Wrecking Crew, once remarked that he had worked hard for ten years to become an overnight success in 1967, with thanks to John Hartford. Without stretching too much, this same trajectory, extended by more than ten years, has been illustrated recently in biomedical research by the case […]
Read more...Big Tech elitists enlist AI for power grabs, from spying in our homes to profiting from militarism. Luckily, people are fighting back.
Read more...Conor here: Perhaps what the authors call “the holy grail of environmental policy” (economic growth with less emissions) needs a rethink. Sooner rather than later they’ll have no choice as global warming will do the job if conflicts don’t, and degrowth will be imposed on us one way or another. The European Central Bank, for […]
Read more...Is there any way back from the extreme concentration of power in societies across the world?
Read more...Older men show less cognitive decline if they keep working. Does this finding apply only to paid jobs or would charity roles be salutary too?
Read more...A reminder on the Declaration’s 250th anniversary of the lack of freedom due to poverty and wealth inequality.
Read more...How pervasive behavioral disorders among what passes for elites are destructive not just to the social order but ultimately to them too.
Read more...Part the First: Pope Leo XIV and the Larger World. Of the academic historians currently writing for both their colleagues and students and the general reader, Greg Grandin is among the finest. In The Education of Pope Leo XIV he places the former Father Bob Prevost and current Pope Leo XIV in context of our […]
Read more...AI benefits are predicated on social progress. However, while societies constantly change, it is not always for the better
Read more...Fox News brands the majority of Americans as official enemies, echoing extra-legal ““domestic terrorism organizations” in Trump’s NSPM-7.
Read more...How the post-truth era makes it harder for humanitarian organizations to build trust, protect civilians, and save lives.
Read more...It is clear that in much of the so-called developed world, food has largely lost its meaning beyond nourishment. Julian Baggini has written about this, ten years ago in The Virtues of the Table, which is especially useful in considering how and why we eat. More recently Baggini has expanded his range in How the […]
Read more...New insight reveals that inequality was low in one of South Asia’s first cities and that it decreased as its citizens prospered.
Read more...Part the First: Functional Art from the Enigmatic Daunians. William Morris famously wrote, “Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” Of course, his beauty in response to the immiseration of the working class was for the English rich but nothing is perfect. Our old […]
Read more...A treatise on what the idea of the West falls short on synthesis but still provides good grist for discussion.
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