Articles of Note

Antony Beevor writes about how people kill one another in war. But “there are things that you can’t put in a book because they are too horrific”... more »


New Books

Raymond Williams is the reason college students study Beyoncé as well as Beethoven. He also developed proto-digital humanities... more »


Essays & Opinions

Daniel Dennett’s “brain in a vat,” Derek Parfit’s teleportation: Philosophers of consciousness love a good thought experiment. Now it’s the “ultimate simulation machine”... more »