Noam Chomsky Defines What It Means to Be a Truly Educated Person
There may be no more contentious an issue at the level of local U.S. government than education. All of the socioeconomic and cultural fault lines communities would rather paper over…
A Meditation upon a Broomstick (1711)
A classic piece of parody from the great Anglo-Irish satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift. The particular butt of Swift's sharp pen in this instance was Robert Boyle…
Tyree Guyton becomes a star in Philadelphia, Heidelberg undergoes renovation in Detroit
Tyree Guyton finishes a major new work in Philadelphia, "The Times," while the Heidelberg Project undertakes its first major renovation as "Heidelberg 3.0" pushes forward. {read}
Interview: Meg Elison on “Big Girl”
““Big Girl” came to me as a reaction to the fact that women are always the wrong size, no matter where they are in life. There is no way to…
The Lamp of Mutual Aid
Joshua Edwards meditates on the nature of work and communal living. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
The Today show pushed out talented women. It kept Matt Lauer around for years.
While Curry, Hall, and Morales are the most public examples of women who left their Today jobs while Lauer kept his, it is impossible to know if they are the…
The Problem with ‘Friendly’ Artificial Intelligence
Thus one approach to designing moral machines is to sidestep the tricky problem of robots’ inner lives, and deal instead with a view of morality that seems far more definite,…
A Tech Innovation in Detroit: Connect People, Not Computers
A technology project in Detroit is making in-roads based on an old school philosophy that the Internet can't solve every problem by itself.
The Dangerous Lure of Writing For White Readers in an MFA
So I will end this by asking some questions of the white, American readers toward whom, for better or worse, I have been orienting my writing for so long: What…
The Art of Making a Tapestry
Learn how tapestries were made in the time of Louis XIV and are still made today. Explore the process of tapestry weaving at the Gobelins Manufactory in Paris, where historical…