The Medium is the Massage: on the Temptation to Replace People with Technology
Posted onSherry Turkle is distraught. The more this MIT professor of the social studies of science and technology looks at the world around her, the more […]
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I looked, and behold! a spray tan horse (or, how the loss of literacy could spell the end for western civilization)
Posted onWhen Kim Kardashian tweeted, “Today marks the 100 year anniversary of Armenian Genocide!” as if she were giving a birth announcement, it predictably elicited some […]
Nebulosity, thy name is feminism
Posted onAziz Ansari recently delighted mainstream feminists on The Late Show with David Letterman when he claimed that, “if you believe that men and women have […]
The Dark Knight Rises, the French Revolution, and the Dangers of Political Extremism
Posted onRecently released on DVD, The Dark Knight Rises completes director Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy. The plot hinges upon villain Bane’s takeover of Gotham for […]
The Dark Knight and Christ’s Substitutionary Atonement
Posted onI know I’m posting kind of late about what has long ago been a cultural phenomenon, but I felt like I had made an interesting […]