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The methadone of the people
It's tempting to imagine a future free of the opium of the people. But there's a new addiction right behind it.
Be an average citizen of the future, now
Why not get ahead of the curve?
It may be time to accept that we're living in a simulation
New religion incoming.
A theory of future music
A music professor tries to imagine the music of the distant future.
Projecting secular power into future elections
Already influential, secular voters will soon be the dominant voice in US elections, says political analyst Juhem Navarro-Rivera.
We cannot let a secular fear of God-belief poison law and politics
Author and law professor Bruce Ledewitz warns that the rejection of objective morality and meaning imperils the future we claim to want.
Look up or don’t look up: We probably won’t see the one that gets us
Tick tick, y'all.
Is the sun setting on solitary confinement?
If our system of punishment continues to revolve around deprivation, the future will always include some version of a dark hole in the ground.
The disorienting weirdness of GPT's hallucinations
We just aren't wired to grok this kind of interaction.
For the Trump faithful, it comes down to plot armor
It's no surprise that Trump benefits from a feature you've seen on bad television.
Another demographic time bomb goes off for evangelicals
The future of evangelical Christianity is looking exceedingly grim.
Solarpunk humanism: How we dream bigger than despair
Solarpunk offers a potent narrative space for imagining secular worlds to come, and how to get there.