Will Pricing Algorithms Spell the End of the Fair Market Price?
I hate haggling. I spent a lot of my life living and working in countries across the Asia-Pacific, where open negotiation for purchases is...
The Humanities Challenge: Expanding the Circle of Philosophy
“Philosophy is, or should be, a kind of magic. It is not an escape from but rather a new window—or many windows—onto our lives....
Dune’s Discomfort with Religion
Every adaptation puts a spin on the source material. Dune: Part One (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024), by director Denis Villeneuve, are infused...
“When You See This Sign…”: The Power of Silence in Propaganda
“The best propaganda is that which, as it were, works invisibly, penetrates the whole life without the public having any knowledge of the propagandistic...
‘Totalitarian’ Technologies and the Transformation of the Political World: A Radical Cold War Critique
“The world in which we live today and which surrounds us, is a technological one,” wrote Günther Anders in 1979. The Cold War world,...
What’s Love Got to Do With It: Chatbot Wives and Lonely Hearts
As if stealing our data, copyrighted material including books, music, and films, and quite possibly many of our jobs, was not enough, AI seems...
Why We Should Stop “Networking”: On the Intrinsic Value of Connection
The term networking has become ubiquitous today. From networking platforms such as LinkedIn to networking events at conferences, the practice of networking has become...
Democratizing the Economy through Community Wealth Building: Recent Lessons from the UK and Poland
In a recent post in this series, Hannes Kuch presented the case for economic democracy. Just as we balk at the thought of being...
The Best Available Parent
Few things are more mundane than becoming a parent. One, or one’s partner, gives birth to a child; one takes the baby home, if...
What May We Hope for After Thirty Years of Failed Climate Summits?
In his 1795 essay Towards Perpetual Peace, Immanuel Kant prophesied that the “spirit of commerce” would drive countries to unite in perpetual peace, not...