This piece, by Scott McLemee, seems to me by far the best one I've seen on Steiner. Like the author, I found him at first fascinating, and then a bit more tiresome. I think he was the way I...

These are all worth your while, for sure.

Jill Lepore on the last time democracy nearly died all over the world and almost all at once.

Nice introduction to a collection of...

This piece, on UVA researchers, has me thinking.  I know a number of these people.  They're great people.  I think in their fields, they are indeed excellent researchers.  Every one of them deserves...

A nice interview with Lorraine Daston on her career as a scholar who historicizes the self-evident.  

This is a bit worrying: "The World Bank has just warned us that a fourth...

Small piece on a large topic: Are algorithms fracturing our once-unified culture, leaving us in an archipelago of incommensurabilities, or are they ruthlessly feeding our already-diverse...