Phlogiston — the invisible fire-essence that doesn’t exist — produced some of the most rigorous chemistry of the 18th century. Here’s how a false theory built the tools that killed it.
What George Berkeley accomplishes in three short conversations between two fictional men strolling through a…
Culture, most people assume, is the thing that separates us from the rest of life….
In their book, “The Good Life,” Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz embark on a profound…
Plato wanted the world to be clean. Fixed types. Eternal forms sitting outside time and…
A review of Richard Manning’s Grassland — the story of North America’s vanishing prairies, what we destroyed to build industrial agriculture, and why it matters now.