Yesterday, after months of negotiations, Greece’s Syriza government relented to the demands of its creditors and offered a […]
Category Archive: theory
What is information, though? And what is intellectual property? These questions bring us back to the issue of […]
“Here, and shockingly few other places in this country, men are paid to increase knowledge, to work toward […]
The following is an excerpt from the forthcoming book Desi Hoop Dreams: Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian […]
Since at least the 1950s, scholars have speculated about what the economy might look like when and if […]
Everybody seems to have a problem with academics these days. We’ve known for a long time that the […]
Democracy is a funny word. In the strictest sense, it means “government by the people,” with decisions made […]
I didn’t watch the debate about evolution and creationism between science educator Bill Nye and creationist Ken Ham […]