Society

In 1997, Wired magazine predicted 25 years of prosperity and peace driven by new technology. How have its prophesies fared?

Say you forget to wish your friend a happy birthday. When you see them and apologize, they give a tight smile and say, “No, I’m not mad!” but continue to act cold and distant. Despite your attempts to talk through the issue, they refuse to acknowledge their feelings. This friend, whether or not they realize […]

Men are free to pray everywhere. Women do not even retain autonomy over their own bodies.

I’m continuing my coverage of dangerous Internet bills in the California legislature. This job is especially challenging during an election year, when legislators rally behind the “protect the kids” mantra to pursue bills  that are likely to hurt, or at...

Websites may be forced to verify ages of visitors unless changes made

What kind of things might be scarce in a future world filled with advance AIs and advance science that could probably reverse engineer most things? It is hard to think of something we could not synthesize. In the sci-fi story Dune, … Continue reading →

The pro-life movement needs to know that such culture wars result not in outright victory for one side but in reaction and compromise.

In several passages, the justice adopts the most radical rhetoric of the anti-abortion movement.

The author of ‘Dred Scott’ and the author of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization stripped fundamental rights from Blacks and women, respectively. And sundered their nation in the process.

As the climate warms, more health risks will come not only from other people, but increasingly from the environment around us.

Postcards were first printed in the mid-1800s, and over the next century, hundreds of billions of them would be sent around the world. Between June 1907 and June 1908 alone, Americans exchanged 667 million of them. As author Lydia Pyne argues, the astonishing ubiquity of postcards made them the “world’s first social network.” Practical and […]

Classifiers considered harmful.

The dramatic uptick in remote workers should be a chance to embrace change—not fight it.

A rebuttal of sorts to the unreasonable anger over BNL's biggest hit, as portrayed in a popular column by a prominent critic.

I am willing to bet that 200 years from now (2222) more than 66% of people born on the planet will have adult names they chose themselves. Having a name chosen by your parents will be like having a marriage … Continue reading →

“Please be kind” sounds like a moral imperative. And in some ways, it is. But behind the theory of the firm and a key building block of successful communities is the idea that kind inte…

If you are unmoved by the promises of our electeds, head over to the Federal Building this evening at 5 pm.

It's not a real study

The country’s hackers have gotten far more aggressive since 2015, when the Ministry of State Security largely took over the country’s cyberespionage.

The complexity of the human heart can be expressed in the arrangement of one’s books.

Make a list of the richest people on earth. Behind their wealth are large organizations comprised of hundred of thousands of people who make stuff that millions of others want to use in their lives. Hundreds of thousands of Amazon