AI and the End of Common Culture
Culture is fragmented; it is about to become atomised.
Samuel Fitoussi
· 6 min read
culture
A collection of 27 posts
Romance Across the Divide with David Christopher Kaufman | Quillette Cetera Ep. 55
David Kaufman on what followed when a Palestinian date mentioned genocide—in bed—with a Zionist.
Zoe Booth, David Christopher Kaufman
· 22 min read
When Women Are Radicalised
Men aren’t the only ones susceptible to extremist thinking.
Claire Lehmann
· 8 min read
A New Dark Age?
Political scientists have always extolled the ideal of the informed voter, but information has become a cacophony.
George Case
· 9 min read
Beware Cultural Drift
Thoughts on modernity’s monoculture mistake.
Robin Hanson
· 12 min read
Slavery and Steam
The dangers of forfeiting societal sustainability.
David Foster
· 7 min read
A World of Waste, Stripped of Transcendence: James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ at 100
Few novels become institutions, to have departments rigged up around them, whole constituencies and spheres of scholarship, as works of lifelong study, fascination and confusion. Ulysses, whose publication centenary will be observed on February 2nd, is one such book. Like Marx’s Kapital, Joyce’s door-stopping opus has kept academics
Jared Marcel Pollen
· 13 min read
The Need for a Culture of Achievement
Rand’s style often caused her to be misunderstood and dismissed as some kind of Nietzschean.
Robert Tracinski
· 12 min read
‘We Never Looked Back’
Education was divided along confessional lines into Catholic and Protestant school systems; for these purposes, Jews were designated Protestant.
Ruth R. Wisse
· 15 min read
The Push for Equity in Education Hurts Vulnerable Children the Most
Implementation of newly popular equity policies will hinder the learning of many students before those policies are weakened or reversed.
Russell T. Warne
· 13 min read
Culture, the Humanities, and the Collapse of the Grand Narratives
The socio-economic arguments are based on data indicating that the number of humanities graduates has declined rapidly since the financial crisis in 2008.
Sara Cederberg
· 10 min read
Against Cultural Protectionism
We are living in a time where the old models are changing, where the access to new styles and ideas is greater than ever.
Leo Nicolletto
· 13 min read
What the Right Gets Wrong about Social Justice Culture
Social justice culture is a moral culture, like honor or dignity culture. It’s also a political ideology, like Marxism or liberalism.
Bradley Campbell
· 9 min read
For 30 Years, I've Tried to Become a Woman. Here’s What I Learned Along the Way
The mirror doesn’t lie.
Corinna Cohn
· 13 min read
Protecting Our Cultural Commons from Opportunism
The reason why commons-dilemma problems are so hard to solve is that they are the result of perfectly rational behavior.
David C. Rose
· 8 min read