Formica was invented in 1913 to insulate electrical motors, not feed truck drivers. Here’s how it became the surface of every working-class lunch on Long Island.
A review of Corey Powell’s God in the Equation — the book that traces how cosmology, dark energy, and Einstein’s Lambda became the foundation of a new secular religion.
A book review of Plato’s Republic from a Brooklyn dropout who found philosophy in a classroom and never left. What Socrates did to my brain in one semester.
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Plato did not write The Republic as a philosophy textbook. He wrote it as a…