Tag: "culture & society"

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]

What Makes Human Beings Unique?

Hans Lenk on symbols, interpretation and the nature of thought.
[Issue 69: September/October 2008: Articles]

Horton Hears A Who!

Todd Walters is delighted to announce that the roles of Socrates and Galileo will be played by Horton and the Mayor of Whoville respectively.
[Issue 67: May/June 2008: Films]

In Defense Of Dueling

Ryan Ruby intellectually attacks, feints and parries in favour of legally reinstating the duel as a means of settling personal disputes.
[Issue 67: May/June 2008: Articles]

What Price Privacy?

John Goff wonders what the real cost of privacy is in the modern world.
[Issue 66: March/April 2008: Paranoia]

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