Science / Tech - Quillette (Page 2)

AI and the Transformation of the Human Spirit

The first stage of grief is denial, but despair is also misplaced.

Steven D. Hales

13 Feb 2023 · 12 min read

ChatGPT and the Future of the Professions

Professionals must learn to work with the machines or they will be replaced by them.

Sean Welsh

26 Jan 2023 · 12 min read

The Crypto Token Economy Is Second-Order Fraud

The entire industry is artifice built atop artifice.

Sohale Mortazavi

24 Jan 2023 · 16 min read

Hope, Trust, and Religious Faith

In the 1990s, religious Americans embraced science’s re-definition of spirituality. They would be unwise to repeat this mistake.

Ronald W. Dworkin

17 Jan 2023 · 10 min read

Experiences with Suicide

Coping with a uniquely painful kind of bereavement.

Art Kusserow

16 Jan 2023 · 8 min read

More Than Just a Social Construct

The fiction that race has no biological basis is more likely to exacerbate health disparities than narrow them.

Robert J. Morris

8 Jan 2023 · 8 min read

Elon Musk’s controversial takeover of Twitter has led many commentators to wonder if the platform can be improved by its new owner. In this roundtable, three writers offer their thoughts and suggestions.

Bo Winegard, Jim Rutt, and Cody Moser

14 Dec 2022 · 17 min read

The Philadelphia Experiments

How an enterprising doctor, an elite university, and negligent public officials turned a city prison system into the largest human research factory in America.