Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy by Manuel DeLanda — What Plato Got Wrong and Why It Still Matters
Plato wanted the world to be clean. Fixed types. Eternal forms sitting outside time and…
Grassland by Richard Manning — What We Buried Under the Breadbasket
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.
Fearsome Fauna: A Field Guide to the Creatures That Live in You — Roger M. Knutson
Pick this book up and the cover alone does something to you. Illustrated parasites curl…
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…
When Elephants Weep by Jeffrey Masson — Darwin Never Finished the Sentence
Darwin said it first. Right there in The Expression of the Emotions in Man and…
