culture
Persian hospitality: Connecting cultures through wine
Can ancient traditions of wine and hospitality bridge the divide between America and Iran?
Are parasocial connections helpful or harmful?
Social media creates an illusory feeling of being emotionally intimate with strangers.
David Brooks wants to rebuild a humanistic culture
To rediscover our values, we first have to forge a new foundation for them.
Rechalking the giant
The Cerne Giant in Dorset is an earthly legend that links past, present, and future.
It is time for the end of Zionism
What hope is left for peace in the Mideast?
How the fight for evolution prepared us to fight for democracy
Thinking of democracy as a threatened species can help us preserve its future.
The words we'll need, and the words we won't
New realities will give birth to new lexicons.
Is AI art causing future shock or age-old economic anxiety?
The tech isn’t the problem. Our civic failure to grow along with it is.
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.
Literally building the future: Infrastructure as an act of secular love
When we fix a bridge or give someone better healthcare, we’re saying that this life and this world are worth protecting.
How do we talk about impending doom so that people will listen?
Books like ‘The Ministry for the Future’ offer a useful vocabulary for hashing out solutions to our overheating world.
Reclaiming human agency in how we think about AI
Reading Time: 9 minutes Online panic about AI models like ChatGPT follows a well-travelled path set by impoverished understandings of evolutionary theory. Can we reclaim human agency?