Why do public intellectuals condescend to their readers?
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In defense of the beleaguered academic book review
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Arts and Letters Daily
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Why Silicon Valley is here. One radio engineer had a plan. And it worked.
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Exposed: Slum photography was at the heart of progressive campaigns against urban poverty. And it was a weapon against poor people.
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Language is a poor heuristic for intelligence
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Ludwig Wittgenstein in the classroom - his thoughts about teaching the student who responds in unexpected ways
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Rome’s libraries were shrines to knowledge – and imperial power
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On the mental health benefits of art and taking your mind off of yourself
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Citizen science
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Sick woman theory
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California needs real math education: an essay
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Truth
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Why not Mars
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Why not Mars
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Anthony Fauci on Larry Kramer and loving difficult people
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A July Fourth collection of essays related to the US Independence Day
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Illustrations of madness: James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom
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Why Runa Indigenous people find 'natural parenting' troubling
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Fix the machine, not the person
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Where Heaven and Earth come closer
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The End of Art: Arthur Danto's influential art theory
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How medieval thinkers foreshadowed modern physics in investigating the character of machines, devices and forces
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The city that fell off a cliff
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The return of silvopasture
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Worried that technology is ‘breaking your brain’? Fears about attention spans and focus are as old as writing itself.
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The most important year in the history of science fiction is 1973, because that’s when science fiction ended
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A shared celebration of Orthodox Christmas deep in the Arctic, undimmed by war and the round-the-clock polar night
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Archaeology and genetics can’t yet agree on when humans first arrived in the Americas. That’s good science and here’s why.
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How to speak honeybee
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Short essay: The science fiction of traditional music
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Tango Chirimen and Te-Nassen (A dissertation on applying traditional Japanese textiles to modern garments)
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Poor teeth - If you have a mouthful of teeth shaped by a childhood in poverty, don’t go knocking on the door of American privilege
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Speaking fiction to power
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The polyglots of Dardistan - At the crossroads of south and central Asia lies one of the world’s most multilingual places, with songs and poetry to match
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A Modest Proposal: For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick (1729)
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Beside the point? Punctuation is dead, long live punctuation
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How do ancient stories of talking elephants and singing birds encourage a life of truth, nonviolence and compassion?
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Analytic feminism
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Rome: Decline and Fall? Part III: Things
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Notes on work
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How civilizations fall: A theory of catabolic collapse
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Why you're christian
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Rome: Decline and Fall? Part I: Words
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You are the product
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What to do when the KKK shoots and other lessons from Houston’s underground paper
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100 years of whatever this will be
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Promethean beasts - Far from being hardwired to flee fire, some animals use it to their own ends, helping us understand our own pyrocognition
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In Nebraska, a 151-year-old family farm struggles to survive
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Against the Stoics, Skeptics, Epicureans, and Buddhists
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