The Absence of the Future
At the Venice Biennale, architecture has no vision of the future but gadgets, gimmicks, and climate doom
Indie Squeeze
An elegy for the indie games rennaissance — and prospects for the future
Applying a New Foundation, Geopolitically
What the spread of East Asia’s beauty trends reveals about the region’s soft power influence.
Silent Flight
A verse translation and commentary on the Zhuangzi, a classic of Chinese philosophy
Rose Novick and Zhuangzi
Why Racists Lose Wars
History is full of ethnically divided armies. A recent study quantifies their disastrous track record.
Egypt’s Season of Starlets
In the 1940s and 1950s, all of Egypt was transfixed by the divas of its rising film and radio industries
