A Globally-Oriented History Of Science
“Poskett argues that this story is an empirical failure: it misses how science is actually done, and it does a disservice to practicing scientists. Above all, it misses where science is done. Against the standard narrative of a European scientific revolution, Poskett implores us to see science as a global enterprise, the result of the intermingling of […]
More On “Longtermism” – Should We Value The Future More Than The Present?
On Wisdom. Against Persuasion.
Reconsidering The Internet’s Role In Political Polarization
“So, if the most polarized population uses the Internet and social media the least, to suddenly point a finger at technology says more about our anxieties about the rate of technological change than about what has actually happened to us. The fact is that this twenty-two-year-old dynamic of polarization can’t easily be associated with the […]
An Academic Treatise On Good And Bad Reading (Via Nabokov)
Personal Identity Vs. Stoicism In The Personal Essay
This brings us back to the personal essay. More than a fad and more than a form, we might think of the personal essay as a contract between reader and writer… This task is impossible, or at least impossible to derive pleasure from, without particularity and concreteness—a sense of reciprocity and respect… What we see […]