Marital Completionism: A Bad Model for Thruples and Couples Alike
Why assume you need to make compromises to achieve connubial bliss? In …
Posts in category “Culture”
On Eating Virtuously
In her essay on the paleo diet in the latest New Yorker, Elizabeth …
The Ethics of Disability Metaphors
From the teenage romance between an amputee and an oxygen-tank user in …
Second-Career Farms: the Future of Agriculture?
Decentralized agrarianism faces the challenges of modern farming.
Autonomy and Automation in Old Age
The world’s fast-growing elderly population faces more age-related disease, higher health costs, …
Why Facebook Matters
I wanted to get off Facebook—to deactivate my account entirely. It seemed like …
Congressional Quirkiness on Display @CongressEdits
Twitter has revolutionized the way constituents interact with their representatives in Congress. Will Wikipedia …
Parenting in an Age of Bad Samaritans
Imprisoning parents of briefly unattended kids is a sure sign that community has given way to the State.
Slenderman and the “Mythos” of Modernism
A gruesome murder by teenage girls draws on the Internet’s brand of horror.
Why World Cup Culture Wars Vindicate American Soccer
Ann Coulter brings a Latin American sporting tradition to the USA.
Is the RomCom Dead Yet?
Tired genres need reinvigorating, not abandonment.
“Emoji Dick”: American Classic?
One of the most famous works of literature, now written in emoticons
America the Abstracted
Two recent studies offer up what appear to be contradictory results: one, …
Can Technology Build a Village?
We live in a rapidly urbanizing world. But Brian Chesky, co-founder and …
Aggregated Soul, Quantified Self
Know thyself! According to the Quantified Self movement, data aggregation is the answer …
Want to Cook Local? There’s An App For That
A lot of Americans are beginning to express interest in the idea …
Why Facebook’s Experiment Threatens Further Manipulation
Facebook has taken a lot of heat in the past few days …
On Eating Virtuously
In her essay on the paleo diet in the latest New Yorker, Elizabeth …
The Ethics of Disability Metaphors
From the teenage romance between an amputee and an oxygen-tank user in …
Second-Career Farms: the Future of Agriculture?
Decentralized agrarianism faces the challenges of modern farming.
Autonomy and Automation in Old Age
The world’s fast-growing elderly population faces more age-related disease, higher health costs, …
Why Facebook Matters
I wanted to get off Facebook—to deactivate my account entirely. It seemed like …
Congressional Quirkiness on Display @CongressEdits
Twitter has revolutionized the way constituents interact with their representatives in Congress. Will Wikipedia …
Parenting in an Age of Bad Samaritans
Imprisoning parents of briefly unattended kids is a sure sign that community has given way to the State.
Slenderman and the “Mythos” of Modernism
A gruesome murder by teenage girls draws on the Internet’s brand of horror.
Why World Cup Culture Wars Vindicate American Soccer
Ann Coulter brings a Latin American sporting tradition to the USA.
Is the RomCom Dead Yet?
Tired genres need reinvigorating, not abandonment.
“Emoji Dick”: American Classic?
One of the most famous works of literature, now written in emoticons
America the Abstracted
Two recent studies offer up what appear to be contradictory results: one, …
Can Technology Build a Village?
We live in a rapidly urbanizing world. But Brian Chesky, co-founder and …
Aggregated Soul, Quantified Self
Know thyself! According to the Quantified Self movement, data aggregation is the answer …
Want to Cook Local? There’s An App For That
A lot of Americans are beginning to express interest in the idea …
Why Facebook’s Experiment Threatens Further Manipulation
Facebook has taken a lot of heat in the past few days …
