"Advanced technologies like A.I. are enabling scientists to learn that the world is full of intelligent creatures with sophisticated languages, like honeybees. What might they tell us?"

"The noble but undervalued craft of maintenance could help preserve modernity’s finest achievements, from public transit systems to power grids, and serve as a useful framework for addressing climate change and other pressing planetary _...Read More_

>"A growing body of research suggests human behavior on social media is strikingly similar to collective behavior in nature."

"Flags can be useful as tools of anti-colonial resistance, but we must leave them behind if we are going to build a new concept of community that extends past species and sovereignty and nation."

"Embracing electric cars and the batteries that power them inflates the need for mining. Is this an environmental paradox? Or are there more important questions to ask?"

"The noble but undervalued craft of maintenance could help preserve modernity’s finest achievements, from public transit systems to power grids, and serve as a useful framework for addressing climate change and other pressing planetary _...Read More_

"Eric Voegelin and Hans Kelsen fled the Nazis. In the US, they clashed over the nature of modernity and government"

"Focusing too much on personal behavior or consumption choices is a strategic blunder for those who want to make the world better."

"If we humans are going to gain a better understanding of the vibrant world around us — and the damage we are doing to it — we’re going to need a new conception of nonhuman intelligence."

>"For decades, America gave China a vision of future prosperity. But today, America has mostly ceased to offer a model for China or anywhere else, leaving China’s leaders without a guide as they chart a course into a future filled with _...Read More_

"The German philosopher Martin Heidegger famously remarked back in the 1960s that the advent of cybernetics meant the end of Western metaphysics. What do you think he meant by this comment? And to what extent do you agree?"

>"Electric vehicle makers are grappling with our olfactory attachment to the fuel."

>"In seeking a means to heal our wounded planet, we should look to the painstaking, cautious craft of art conservation"

>"Climate activists & others often frame our responsibility to protect our planet in capitalist terms. What if, instead, we cared for the world’s future inhabitants like aunts?"

>"How did the planet replace the nation-state to become the prime political object of the 21st century?"