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From the Archives: Creating Nature III (Chapter Six of The Future and Its Enemies)
What makes a condition "unhealthy" is not that it is "unnatural" but that it interferes with human purposes.
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Zoning Abolition, AI Advances, and a Cultural Confidence Contest
Plus some other goodies
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Purity, Sorcery, and Cancel Culture
What anthropologist Mary Douglas's work can tell us about the purity conflicts roiling our culture.
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From the Archives: Creating Nature, Part II (chapter six of The Future and Its Enemies)
From a scientific point of view, environmental stasis is neither natural nor desirable.
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Do Upwardly Mobile Latino Plumbers Have Anyone to Vote For?
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Defending Dynamism and Getting Stuff Done
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From the Archives: Remembering Inflation
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Shrinkflation, Disqualiflation, and Depression and more
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From the Archives: "How Dodd-Frank Locks Out the Least Affluent Homebuyers"
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From the Archives: Creating Nature, Part I (chapter six of The Future and Its Enemies)
How we think about nature—and about artifice—informs how we think about the growth and evolution of human societies.
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Shrinkflation, Disqualiflation, and Depression and more
Housekeepers’ union campaign against “disqualiflation” in hotel cleaning. My latest Bloomberg Opinion column is explained well in an excellent subhead…
Jul 28
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From the Archives: The Age of the Editor
Thoughts on abundant media from the dawn of the Internet Era.
Jul 22
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Do Upwardly Mobile Latino Plumbers Have Anyone to Vote For?
Why are Democrats losing working-class voters they thought were a sure thing? Maybe because the party offers them neglect, stagnation, and expensive…
Jul 20
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From the Archives: Alone but Not Lonely
This 1998 article anticipates what Chris Anderson would later name "the long tail." It's one of the most perceptive things I wrote in that period and…
Jul 14
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Jet Lag and an Overdue Installment
Plus the most surprising thing I learned in my textile research.
Jul 13
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From the Archives: America Is Awash in the Wrong Kinds of Stories
The big stories competing for dominance in American culture are demoralizing ones.
Jul 8
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Travel Hell Isn't Just an American Phenomenon
You can't blame July 4 vacationers or airline layoffs for the four-hour security line in Amsterdam. Plus MRIs and sunscreen.
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Defending Dynamism and Getting Stuff Done
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From the Archives: Remembering Inflation
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Shrinkflation, Disqualiflation, and Depression and more
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From the Archives: "How Dodd-Frank Locks Out the Least Affluent Homebuyers"
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