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Artist Isabel Holtan's depiction of an ant. The ant has fungi on its back.

"The Last Refuge of Scoundrels"

Hiding behind "academic freedom," E. O. Wilson actively propagated race pseudoscience in collusion with white supremacists.

by Stacy Farina, Matthew Gibbons via Science For The People on February 1, 2022

The Ghosts Of New Atheism Still Haunt Us

In trying to freeze reality into a cudgel that can be used to assault political opponents, the New Atheists deny the observable evidence in front of them.

by Erik Baker via Defector on May 29, 2024

Thorstein Veblen in 1880, the year he graduated from Carleton College

The Prophet of Maximum Productivity

Thorstein Veblen’s maverick economic ideas made him the foremost iconoclast of the Age of Iconoclasts.

by Kwame Anthony Appiah via New York Review of Books on January 3, 2021

The History of Loneliness

Until a century or so ago, almost no one lived alone; now many endure shutdowns and lockdowns on their own. How did modern life get so lonely?

by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on March 30, 2020

The Invention of Monogamy

For most of its history, monogamy was a rule only applied to married women.

by Sarah Mirk, Isabella Rotman via The Nib on October 20, 2017

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