The genre of science fiction might represent our post-truth regime
more accurately than either disjointed discipline.
Peter Thiel’s philosophical mentor explains Trump, Gawker, and social media
A well-meaning, best-selling memoir promotes dangerous myths about racial determinism and racial innocence that form the bedrock of Trumpism
Inside the bizarre world of the military-entertainment industry’s racialized gamification of war
How states voted with unregulated voting machines and deregulated voter protections
Truths that tell a deeper lie
fake links for fake people
Doing the impossible in the Anthropocene: Henrietta Rose-Innes’ Nineveh.
But you already knew that.
When I saw that the new character in the Clue board game was going to be a woman botanist with an affinity for poison, I thought it sounded very, tiredly familiar. This is not to say that the addition of a woman scientist to a board game should not be considered progress—even in a game
Lady Wranglers After excelling at math throughout elementary school, my eighth grade Honors Algebra teacher – a woman – proclaimed that girls were not capable of the abstraction required by mathematics from that point on. My story was not – and is not – uncommon. Girls and young women are still discouraged from math at
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