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Auden's Island

The Analyst and the Bard

The Algorithm and the Hippocratic Oath

The Department of Everything – Dispatches from the telephone reference desk

Preserving the Wilderness Idea

America's Great Poet of Darkness: A Reconsideration of Robert Frost at 150

Sorting the Self: Assessments and the cult of personality

Nothing Personal: How ideas made Derek Parfit

Language Machinery: Who will attend to the machines’ writing?

You Can't Fact Check Propaganda

TikTok Extends the Wasteland

Hannah Arendt and the Loss of a Common World: Thinking in Concert Against Theory

Conjuring a fiction out of almost nothing

Encountering the High Arctic

The Beatles and the glory of creative risk

Hope Mirrlees and her curious masterpiece

The Impotence of Being Clever

Popper’s Plato

An unlikely meditation on modern happiness

Talk with the Hand – On the expressive art of chirology

The Catherine Project: A new experiment in liberal education

Chasing Phillis Wheatley: Uncovering other possibilities from the past

The Sheep Metaphor

Field Notes of a Sentence Watcher

The Unbearable Burden of Invention

Technosolutionism Isn’t the Fix

Love and Death: “Quality of life” calculations leave out much that matters

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Quantifying Vitality: The Progressive Paradox

Invisible Science: The Scientization of the Ordinary (2016)

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