Cormac McCarthy’s fiction was a dark counter-narrative to American optimism

By Paul Giles

Social media moderation standards are more about epistemology than technology

By Matthew Sheffield

Internet researcher Renée DiResta discusses the challenges and controversies of content moderation

Why the self-help politics of Marianne Williamson leads nowhere

By Matthew Sheffield

Conspirituality podcaster Matthew Remski discusses how the New Age industry birthed a politics of delusion

If misinformation spreads similarly to viruses, can treatments for it be developed?

By Christie Aschwanden

Artificial intelligence is going to change the world, but how much of it is hype?

By Matthew Sheffield

Gary N. Smith and Jeff Schatten debate and discuss how chatbots will change education, employment, and a lot more

AI isn’t close to becoming sentient, but people seem to want to think it is

By Nir Eisikovits

The world’s richest people are starting to realize the system they’ve created is unstable, but they can’t stop

By Matthew Sheffield

Author and filmmaker Douglas Rushkoff talks about why oligarchs are planning for disaster and his book, ‘Survival of the Richest’

The old neoliberal consensus is dead, will a ‘designer economy’ replace it?

By Matthew Sheffield

Historian Nils Gilman on why leaders on the left and right are realizing the state must play a bigger role in the economy

To make a better future, we must first realize why we didn’t get the one we were promised

By Matthew Sheffield

Author Richard Barbrook talks about the failed promises of tech liberation, neoliberalism, and the ‘Californian Ideology’

After envisioning themselves as centrists, tech billionaires like Elon Musk have moved to the far right

By Matthew Sheffield

Writers Jacob Silverman and Chris Lehmann discuss Twitter, cryptocurrency, and libertarian radicalization

The January 6th hearings demonstrate how to move forward when dialogue is impossible

By Robert Repino

For the first time since Donald Trump emerged on the scene, a national political conversation is excluding obviously malicious nonsense

Low-quality pundits are getting rich telling people what they want to hear, inside the economics and psychology of how it works

By Matthew Sheffield

‘Decoding the Gurus’ co-host Matthew Browne on how the tools of acquiring knowledge are being used to destroy it

Democrats haven’t realized that you can’t defend democracy without explaining it

By Jim Carroll

To counter right-wing authoritarianism, the center-left must articulate a broad vision of a progressive society

Embracing uncertainty may be a better way to cure conspiracist thinking

By Ivan Oransky

If there’s one thing the pandemic has taught us, labels can make the truth that much harder to find

America’s polarization is ultimately an epistemic problem

By Matthew Sheffield

Former libertarian writer and policy wonk Will Wilkinson discusses how many far-right Christians and secular libertarians have decided that facts are optional and evidence does not matter

Ghost stories tell us more about ourselves than the supernatural creatures they describe

By Melanie Trecek-King

Resorting to the supernatural to explain the unexplainable is a failure of imagination

Want to ‘do your own research’ on vaccines or anything else? First realize what research actually means

By Melanie Trecek-King

In order to credibly dispute the conclusions of experts, you have to be one yourself

Bad people who are Christians are still Christians, no matter how that makes other Christians feel

By Robert Repino

If Christians want dialogue with people outside of the faith, they need to be willing to admit that even ‘true’ Christianity can sometimes get things wrong

Why critical thinking is the long-term cure for disinformation

By Matthew Sheffield

While combating specific false beliefs is important, in the long run, helping people learn to spot misinformation is the best way to counter it

In the abortion debate, don’t pretend that biology can answer the question of when humanity begins

By Sahotra Sarkar

Science can observe the various phases of fetal development, but it cannot determine when human life begins