How can democratic societies protect—and protect themselves from—the free flow of digital information?

Twenty-five years after The Bell Curve, debates about racial inequality continue to appeal to biology—on both sides.

In the era of digital neighborhoods, social networks embolden a new kind of racial surveillance.

A new book on climate change deploys an old theme, pitting man against nature. This is not only wrong; it stands in the way of a just future.

From laundry to meal prep, apps tend to mimic maternal care. Is this good for women?

Two new books—one on quantum physics, one on Thomas Kuhn—seek to reestablish the authority of reason and evidence.

Were data crimes perpetrated against U.S. voters? We are about to know a lot more.

Happy End is the culmination of Haneke’s obsession with how technology mediates our desires.

The public has paid for Musk’s vision. So why is the green economy still not here?

In the Turkish government’s rush to root out conspirators, the threshold for guilt is low.

As it turns out, self-government and social connection are not the same thing.

By the 2020 election, the market for virtual reality is projected to increase twentyfold. That's great news for VR's proponents who relish the technology's persuasive powers, but what does it mean for those inside the headset? 

The modes of perception and living that we attribute to Instagram are rooted in a much older aesthetic of the picturesque.

Silicon Valley has turned the problem of marine plastic waste into yet another avenue for “disruption.” But why should clean oceans have to make good business sense?

Many visions of the future proliferate in Silicon Valley. Which one is worth fighting for?

Walden is often championed as an anti-technology manifesto. But this misses the value Thoreau found in conversations spread across vast spans of time and distance.

Of the pioneers who drove the information technology revolution, Claude Shannon may have been the most brilliant.