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Who's Got Personality?

Our mania for testing knows few bounds. We test kids in school, early and late, for both

Merve Emre, Deborah Chasman

Science & Nature

Programming My Child

Through the experience of parenting his daughter, a software developer came to see Google and Facebook as the first digital children. 

David Auerbach

Law & Justice, Race

Hoverboarding While Black

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

Clarence Harlan Orsi

Science & Nature

Nature Defends Itself

A new book on climate change resurrects the antinomy between man and nature. This is not only wrong; it stands in the way of a just future.

Dayton Martindale

Gender & Sexuality

Going to Work in Mommy's Basement

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

Sarah Sharma

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

The Defeat of Reason

From quantum physics to the anti-rationalism of Thomas Kuhn.

Tim Maudlin

Law & Justice

Cambridge Analytica Is Dead, Long Live Our Data

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

David Carroll

Literature & Culture

Haneke and the Technology of Intimacy

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

Francey Russell

Global Justice

The App that Makes You a Terrorist

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

Umar Farooq

Class & Inequality

Elon Musk’s Fall from Grace

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

Andrew Elrod

Science & Nature

Democracy vs. the Algorithm

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

Clara Hendrickson

Science & Nature

Headset Hypocrisy

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? 

John Tinnell

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