Technological innovations

Objectivity

by Hari Kunzru,

Facts, notoriously, do not care about our feelings. They are not subjective, but objective. The “I” who experiences emotion is located in time and space, the owner of a single…

Permanent Pandemic

by Justin E. H. Smith,

Will COVID controls keep controlling us?

Broken Links

by Hari Kunzru,

A young woman is waiting in her New York apartment for her fiancé to arrive and take her to city hall to get married. When he doesn’t turn up, she…

Prayer for a Just War

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Greg Jackson on June 10, 2021

Don’t keep calm and carry on: a new way of thinking about action on climate change Read More

Prayer for a Just War

by Greg Jackson,

Finding meaning in the climate fight

The Silenced Majority

by Rana Dasgupta,

Can America still afford democracy?

To Infinity and Beyond

by Maël Renouard, Translated by Peter Behrman de Sinéty,

From Fragments of an Infinite Memory: My Life with the Internet, a memoir, which will be published in November by New York Review Books. Translated from the French by Peter…

From research topics funded by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency between 2007 and 2012. The list was obtained by the Federation of American Scientists. BiomaterialsMetamaterialsFusion propulsion Read More

Destroyer of Worlds

by Elaine Scarry, Eric Schlosser, Lydia Millet, Mohammed Hanif, Rachel Bronson, Theodore Postol,

Taking stock of our nuclear present

Face the Nation

From news reports in the past year of facial-recognition technologies that have been implemented in China. Read More

An Energy-Generating Beaver Dam

by Jacques Leslie,

Thinking small to end the era of big dams

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Objectivity

Permanent Pandemic

Broken Links

Prayer for a Just War

Prayer for a Just War

The Silenced Majority

To Infinity and Beyond

Moon Shots

Destroyer of Worlds

Face the Nation

An Energy-Generating Beaver Dam