Category: Culture
“Eugenicons”? Call Them What They Are — Social Darwinists
It’s sad when once-useful words turn stale and disintegrate — like losing an old friend.
What Deep Social Change Underlies the War on Math?
The universal language of science is sinking under the weight of claims about trauma and privilege.
Maura: The Woman Whose Brain Was Stolen and Stored by the Smithsonian
Maura was brought from the Philippines to the U.S. in 1904 to take part in one of the public displays of indigenous people at the St. Louis World’s Fair.
Human Exceptionalism — Why Artificial Intelligence Will Never Tell a Story
The personal, communicative nature of storytelling rules out AI as a legitimate author. It can’t intend meaning.
For Science and Free Speech, Lessons from Oppenheimer
Like all great art, the movie evokes reactions in the viewer beyond what the filmmaker might have intended.