At the Intersection of Art and Science: Revisiting EO Wilson’s 'Consilience'
Artists and scientists have a reductionist’s idea of one another and perceive the other as a threat.
Clint Margrave
· 6 min read
Books
A collection of 206 posts
The WEIRDest People in the World—A Review
WEIRD individuals are psychologically peculiar in a number of ways.
Alex Mackiel
· 7 min read
'Science Fictions' Review: Begone, Science Swindlers
Science Fictions is engaging, story-led, and well-organised. It will equip my sad young friend to articulate what went wrong with his charity’s study on literacy and, as importantly, to do the next one well.
Rosalind Arden
· 10 min read
Flannery O'Connor and the Ideological War on Literature
What cancel culture has just mown down isn’t simply Flannery O’Connor or her works, but our ability to view them through any other lens except that of doctrine.
Charlotte Allen
· 13 min read
Chinese Science Fiction's Disaster Dystopias
Rather than the emergence of a China-dominated world order, as some in the West and many in Beijing propose, science fiction writers illuminate realities that could end up reprising the failures of the former Soviet Union.
Joel Kotkin
· 9 min read
At a Time Like This, the West Could Use Its Own Vladimir Voinovich
Voinovich’s legacy has a personal aspect for me.
Cathy Young
· 16 min read
Lord Over All: Alexander the Great's Conquered World of Priests and Pagans
The poverty of Macedon made incense rarer than in Greece or the Near East, and it also made offerings rarer.
F.S. Naiden
· 14 min read
The Truth According to Social Justice—A Review of 'Cynical Theories'
The book explains a half-century arc of intellectual history culminating in our current state of histrionic overreach in the name of social justice.
Jonathan Church
· 8 min read
Jeffrey Epstein's Money Tainted My Workplace. Then Ronan Farrow's Botched Reporting Trashed My Reputation
The New Yorker story remains an albatross around my neck.
Peter Cohen
· 27 min read
The Room Where It Happened—A Review
Money is a consistently recurring theme. Trump told Bolton at one point that other presidents had not talked about money, but that he liked to do so.
John Lloyd
· 15 min read
Interpreting Italo Svevo—When Literary Orthodoxy Misses The Mark
Marx’s ideas have been debunked by economists; Freud’s ideas have been debunked by psychologists.
Dario Maestripieri
· 11 min read
The Libertarian History of Science Fiction
The connection between SF and liberty is not simply an accidental byproduct of the colorful history of SF publishing, but a necessary one tied to certain fundamentals of the genre.
Jordan Alexander Hill
· 15 min read
The Coming of Neo-Feudalism—A Review
Feudal societies were hierarchical, with clearly-defined roles and responsibilities for everyone. The knights fought for all, the priests prayed for all, and the peasants worked for all.
Adam Wakeling
· 11 min read
Return to ‘The Unheavenly City’
“This book will probably strike many readers as the work of an ill-tempered and mean-spirited fellow,” Banfield explained, “but facts are facts, however, unpleasant, and they have to be faced unblinkingly by anyone who really wants to improve matters in the cities.”
Craig Trainor
· 12 min read
Barney Rosset and the Unending Struggle to Read Freely
It is by now a familiar truism that the Internet—and social media, in particular—has awarded the intolerant, the narrow-minded, and the censorious unprecedented power. To this challenge from below, publishers have, by and large, responded with dismaying timidity. Large multinational publishing firms have hastily withdrawn controversial titles and
Kevin Mims
· 22 min read