Tag: "culture & society"

What Would Make The Best Society?

The following answers to this central philosophical question each win a random book.
[Issue 73: May/June 2009: Question of the Month]

The Spirit of Comics

by Charles Natoli
[Issue 73: May/June 2009: Editorial]

Thinking Comics with Danny Fingeroth

John Shelton Lawrence asks analyser of comics and the former editor of the Spider-Man range of titles what makes a superhero, philosophically speaking.
[Issue 73: May/June 2009: Comics]

RUR or RU Ain’t A Person?

Tim Madigan leads the rise of the robots.
[Issue 72: March/April 2009: Food for Thought]

V for Vendetta

Floris van den Berg watches The Open Society and its Enemies, the movie.
[Issue 71: January/February 2009: Films]

Tim Delaney relates how Herbert Spencer, inventor of the phrase ‘survival of the fittest’, originally applied evolutionary thinking to human society and culture.
[Issue 71: January/February 2009: Charles Darwin]

Why We Hate Us by Dick Meyer

Kurt Keefner argues that Americans have had enough of Dick Meyer’s Pragmatic medicine.
[Issue 71: January/February 2009: Books]

2 B R 0 2 B by Kurt Vonnegut

Nick DiChario envisions a not-so-rosy future courtesy of Kurt Vonnegut.
[Issue 70: November/December 2008: Books]

Thoreau’s ‘Paradise To Be Regained’

James Moran considers the archetypal American antedeluvian’s criticism of someone else’s technological paradise.
[Issue 70: November/December 2008: Utopia]

Utopia: Living in a Nowhere Land

by Tim Madigan
[Issue 70: November/December 2008: Editorial]

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