The Religions of the Oppressed by Vittorio Lanternari — When the Powerless Invent Their Own God
Desperation is the mother of theology. That’s what I kept thinking as I worked through…
The Old Régime and the French Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville — The Revolution That Already Happened
Revolutions don’t begin with the first shot. They begin long before anyone picks up a…
Descartes’ Error by Antonio Damasio — The Body Was Never Separate from the Mind
A review of Antonio Damasio’s Descartes’ Error — the neuroscience book that dismantled 350 years of mind-body dualism and proved emotion is the engine of reason.
God and Golem, Inc. by Norbert Wiener — When the Father of Cybernetics Warned Us About Playing God
Norbert Wiener’s 1964 God and Golem, Inc. warned us about machines that learn, reproduce, and create. Sixty years later, the warning reads like a prophecy we ignored.
Faith, Madness, and Spontaneous Human Combustion by Gerald N. Callahan — You Are Not One Thing. You Are a Negotiation.
Gerald Callahan’s essays on immunology and identity ask a question philosophy never quite answered: What makes you *you*? A review of a quietly radical book.
Technopoly by Neil Postman — The Prophet Nobody Wanted to Hear
Neil Postman wrote Technopoly in 1992. I want you to hold that date in your…
