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Liberal Society Isn't for Everyone

After Babel Fish: The promise of cheap translations at the speed of the Web

The Word Made Lifeless. Are we becoming stochastic parrots?

Translation and Taste

An untidy history of AI across four books

The Delusion Machine – What happened when I fed my soul into an LLM

ChatGPT Is a Gimmick

On Not Carrying a Camera – Cultivating memories instead of snapshots

Should the Government Have Regulated the Early Internet - or Our Future AI?

A Phenomenology of Spotify and Vinyl

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

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