Towards a Brave New World Huxley’s dystopian novel was a warning, but we are systematically moving in the direction he indicated. Tomasz Witkowski 5 Oct 2023 · 10 min read
What is Happening to My Profession? Some of the people who are refusing the life-saving COVID vaccine are alienated from mainstream institutions, which they view as house organs of the political Left rather than trustworthy arbiters of truth. Sally Satel 30 Nov 2021 · 10 min read
Yes, People Are Dying. But It’s Still Okay to Worry About Your Job When people are dying horrible deaths in isolation from loved ones, and essential workers are putting themselves and their families at risk by going into danger zones, this isn’t the time to focus on how much we’ll “repay” young, healthy people who, though worried and unemployed, are safe at home. Dan Meegan 9 Apr 2020 · 7 min read
Work—the Tragedy of Our Age The appeal of the material is very strong. But so will the rest of us one day regret living a manky, derivative life of office jobs and ignoring the fact that maybe there is something of Poe in each of us. Elena Shalneva 30 Jan 2020 · 9 min read
Journalists Need to Do a Better Job Matching 'Experts' to Their Actual Expertise By simply letting experts see how they are about to be quoted, everyone will end up happier. Brian Kalt 18 Dec 2019 · 7 min read
Automation and the Death Knell of the American Workforce Robots don’t complain, they can work 24/7, and they only cost an initial investment and maintenance. Tyler Black 28 Aug 2018 · 6 min read
Reclaiming Work as a Virtue Somewhere along the way, many of the intellectual classes stopped believing in work as essential to survival. Nyunggai Warren Mundine 1 Aug 2018 · 12 min read
Inducing People’s Employers to Fire Them Should Be a Civil Wrong While social media inflames tensions, the law aims to remove emotion and passion from disputes. Katy Barnett 28 Jul 2018 · 18 min read