October 26, 2011
Why We Need a ‘Stuck with Virtue’ Science
Peter A. Lawler and Marc D. Guerra on why in-between beings will always need virtue.
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October 26, 2011
The Science of Politics and the Conquest of Nature
How liberal theory and evolutionary science gave us transhumanism
August 8, 2011
Place and Placelessness in America
In the 1990s, the mavens of high technology praised in breathless tones a new “placelessness.” Thanks to the...
July 18, 2011
July 18, 2011
The Particularities of Place
Gertrude Stein’s famous line about the city of Oakland, California — that there is no “there” there — has...
July 18, 2011
The New Meaning of Mobility
What is “mobility” and what is it for? The word has commonly been used to describe upward movement on the...
July 18, 2011
Place-Conscious Transportation Policy
I started working at the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) in 1973, right out of college, as a civil...
July 18, 2011
The Rise of Localist Politics
Until very recently, the centralization of administrative power under expert control — what we might call, for...
July 18, 2011
Frog: A Tale of Home
From when one leaves his parent’s home at eighteen until one has a place of his own at whatever age, there isn’t...
July 18, 2011
Could Terrorists Exploit Synthetic Biology?
On the potential risks of “de-skilling” bioengineering