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There's a Seeker Born Every Minute (2024)

In Its Purest Form

Reflections on the Mirror Stage

The Heir Conditioner

Life is more than an engineering problem

Review: Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart

Richard Dawkins: Philosophical Dead Ends

Melons and Melancholy: "Eating and Being" illuminates the dynamics of dietetics

A Venerable and Time-Tested Guide

A Venerable and Time-Tested Guide

Weird Nonfiction

I Am Herman Melville

Infinite Proofs: The Effects of Mathematics on David Foster Wallace (2012)

The Last Avant-Garde

America's War on Theater

To Be Real: On Emily Nussbaum’s “Cue the Sun”

The Bulgarian Computer's Global Reach: On Victor Petrov's "Balkan Cyberia"

Toni Morrison's Rejection Letters

Why Hitch Still Matters: On Christopher Hitchens's "A Hitch in Time"

Revisting Madonna-Ology in the Era of Taylor Swift Studies

What Happened to David Graeber?

The Failed Saint: On George Orwell's India

The Hold of the Dead over the Living: A Conversation with Jill Lepore

Acid's First Convert, Cary Grant: On Edward J. Delaney's "The Acrobat"

Soviet Pseudoscience: The History of Mind Control

Reading in the Conglomerate Era

A Medieval Age of Disruption

Machine Voice: Programmer Fiction

In Praise of Slowness (2017)

Foundational Anxieties, Modern Mathematics, and the Political Imagination

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