Dialogue: Daniel Sarewitz told us science needed saving in 2016, long before the populist right got on board. We asked him what he thinks of how theyâre doing so far.
A hundred-year-old experiment in telling people what to build and where is part of why Americans have become so isolated. The Supreme Court may soon bring it to an end â and help bring back real neighborhoods.
The qualities that make built places charming are best stewarded by people who live there. But Americaâs soul-crushing suburban districts are now owned by people far away â people who donât even know theyâre owners at all.
Americaâs neighborhoods were once beautiful, unique, dense, and scaled for a communal life on foot. But obscure federal rules piling up over a century have made it nearly impossible for banks to finance new ones.
The qualities that make built places charming are best stewarded by people who live there. But Americaâs soul-crushing suburban districts are now owned by people far away â people who donât even know theyâre owners at all.
Americaâs neighborhoods were once beautiful, unique, dense, and scaled for a communal life on foot. But obscure federal rules piling up over a century have made it nearly impossible for banks to finance new ones.
From âThe Burnout Societyâ to âThe Tonality of Thought,â tech philosopher Byung-Chul Hanâs ultra-short books reveal why online liberation has felt more like voluntary captivity.
Startup lingo has colonized American life. Politicians âiterate.â Think tanks âpivot.â Cities hire âChief Innovation Officers.â We all âscaleâ and âoptimize.â And tech founders look at the inheritance of civilization and see a legacy codebase overdue for refactoring.
The qualities that make built places charming are best stewarded by people who live there. But Americaâs soul-crushing suburban districts are now owned by people far away â people who donât even know theyâre owners at all.
Magnifica Humanitas is an inspiring invitation. But its focus on war, unemployment, and oligarchy misses the more insidious threat: that AI will turn the human experience itself into slop.
Magnifica Humanitas is an inspiring invitation. But its focus on war, unemployment, and oligarchy misses the more insidious threat: that AI will turn the human experience itself into slop.
Americaâs neighborhoods were once beautiful, unique, dense, and scaled for a communal life on foot. But obscure federal rules piling up over a century have made it nearly impossible for banks to finance new ones.
Broke, raving, and living out of his van, for years Jack Kevorkian turned away from his first love â experiments with death â to a side quest: bringing Jesus Christ to the big screen.
A series by Joseph Lawler about the hidden federal policies that have made our built environment less human-scaled, less hospitable, less lovely, and less conducive to living well together
If you think the power system must run itself by now, youâre wrong. Behind every nicely toasted bagel is a vast network of generators, transformers, computers, wires â and, yes, people in backrooms sweating to make sure the juice flows exactly where, and when, it needs to go. What could possibly go wrong?
