“Although Plato compared the human soul to a chariot pulled by the two horses of reason and emotion, modern economics has mostly been a one-horse show,” says a recent article in the Economist. “It has been obsessed with reason.” Yet, new research is showing that […]
“Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one […]
This year, Sports Illustrated readers can elect not to receive the annual swimsuit issue. According to an article in a recent New York Times, there are people who find beautiful women in expensive bikinis as “alien to the mission of a weekly sports magazine.” I […]
In honor of yesterday’s inauguration, I thought I would put a link to the new Jib Jab video. You might remember the cartoon video they made during the campaign, to the tune of “This Land is Your Land.” The new one is just as funny; […]
We are entering the age of personalization of technology, and according to this article its ramifications on our culture are yet to actualize. “The remote control shifted power to the individual, and the technologies that have embraced this principle in its wake—the Walkman, the Video […]