20 April 2024
Kant and the case for peace
Three centuries after his birth, the Prussian philosopher’s arguments for a rational, clear-eyed pacifism are more relevant than ever
Lea Ypi, Financial Times

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15 April 2024
Philosophy is an art
For Margaret Macdonald, philosophical theories are akin to stories, meant to enlarge certain aspects of human life
Peter West, Aeon

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April, 2024
Casualties of Clintonism
Bill Clinton’s record of failure and defeat
Dave Denison, The Baffler

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March 4, 2024
Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows exactly why
And that’s a problem. Figuring it out is one of the biggest scientific puzzles of our time and a crucial step towards controlling more powerful future models.
Will Douglas Heaven, MIT Technology Review

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Vol. 46 No. 6 · 21 March 2024
I adjure you, egg
Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England 
by Katherine Storm Hindley.
Tom Johnson, London Review of Books

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March 2024
The Pentagon’s Silicon Valley Problem
How Big Tech is losing the wars of the future.
Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine

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13-02-2024
Frontier AI ethics
Generative agents will change our society in weird, wonderful and worrying ways. Can philosophy help us get a grip on them?
Seth Lazar, Aeon

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05-02-2024
The conflict between states and the US federal government is nothing new
Angus Brown, Engelsberg Ideas

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05-02-2024
Day’s eye closed
Elise Adibi, The Philosophical Salon

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31-01-2024
Inglorious Bastards
Can Biden learn anything from LBJ’s missteps in Vietnam?
Toby Jaffe, The Baffler

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05-01-2024
How a Stabbing Changed France
Christopher Caldwell, Compact Magazine

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11-12-2023
Life in the Algorithm
It has reshaped culture—but how? Two new books reckon with our digital predicament.
Anna Shechtman, The Yale Review

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30-11-2023
Bitter Fruits
Aditya Bahl, Sidecar

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30-11-2023
A National Evil
Jonah Goodman on the curse of the goitre in Switzerland
Jonah Goodman, The London Review of Books 

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25-11-2023
Was China behind Sam Altman’s ousting?
Pippa Malmgren, UnHeard

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23-11-2023
Free Agents?
Branko Marcetic, Sidecar

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16-11-2023
Big Six v. Little Boy
Andrew Cockburn, The London Review of Books

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10-11-2023
Benevolent AI Is a Bad Idea
Miya Perry, Palladium

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09-11-2023
How America became the world’s Leviathan
The US is discovering its unique power in international politics: its unparalleled authority over key nodes of the world economy through which global communications, finance and technology move.
Jake Dow & Stehen Paduano, Engelsberg Ideas

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27-10-2023
How Libel Kills Free Speech
Greg Conti, Compact Magazine

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20-10-2023
The Masters of War
Where is Biden’s moral compass?
Dave Denison, The Baffler

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12-10-2023
Border Lines
Marco D’Eramo, Sidecar

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09-10-2023
Finance as alchemy
Finance fraud is not a deviation from an essentially rational system but a window onto the reality-distortion of markets
Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Aeon

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15-09-2023
Africa’s Quest for Sovereignty
Toby Green, Compact Magazine

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14-09-2023
Western Pravdas
Marco D’Eramo, Sidecar

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08-09-2023
Spain’s Lessons for American Decline
R. Taggart Murphy, Compact Magazine

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05-09-2023
The cloud sovereignty nexus: How the European Union seeks to reverse strategic dependencies in its digital ecosystem
Filippo Gualtiero Blancato, Policy and Internet

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24-08-2023
A New Cosmist Moment
Alexander Gelland , Palladium

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22-07-2023
Young, pretty, unemployed China
Vittoria Mazzieri, Siamomine

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Summer 2023
Why This AI Moment May Be the Real Deal
Ari Schulman, The New Atlantis

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March-June 2023
Weapon of Power, Matrix of Management
NATO’s Hegemonic Formula
Grey Anderson, New Left Review

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21-02-2023
War and Theft: The Takeover of Ukraine’s Agricultural Land
The Oakland Institute

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October 2022
Sentience and Sensibility
Google tech-lashes its in-house AI critics
Meghan O’Gieblyn, The Baffler

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Spring 2022
American Captivity
The captivity narrative as creation myth
Ed Simon, Hedgehog Review

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May/June 2022
Capital and cybernetics
Timothy Erik Ström, New left Review

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12-07-2021
Treason of the Intellectuals
The French thinker Julien Benda made a high-minded case for the moral transcendence of the truth. The flaws in his argument show why speaking truth to power is a fraught endeavor.
Mark Lilla, Tablet

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Sping 2020
The Cleopatra’s Nose of 1914
The story of the Caillaux affair—a murdered newspaper editor, a web of adultery, and the road to World War I.
Jack Beatty, Lapham’s Quarterly

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Summer 2019
Weaponized Interdependence: How Global Economic Networks Shape State Coercion
Henry Farrell, Abraham L. Newman, International Security 

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May 2018
Exiled – Mike Pence and the evangelical fantasy of persecution
Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harper’s Magazine

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