The notion that ever-increasing job growth is always socially beneficial is not only ridiculous, but dangerous. — If society has learnt one lesson about work from the Coronavirus, it is that the jobs many of us perform are less vital than those of others. Ever since the fallout of the 2007–08 economic crisis, the traditional relationship between work and livelihoods has faced increased scrutiny. Such critiques-broadly labeled…

In the tangled knot of American cultural mythology, one thread of particular significance is this country’s unique history of spacefaring. In our own time, celebrity-entrepreneurs like Tesla’s Elon Musk and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos have taken to the stage to proffer heady proposals for Earth’s next frontier. When they do so…

Kader Attia is a multi-form French visual artist, recipient of the Prize Marcel Duchamp, a prestigious national honor for contemporary artists awarded in France. …

Being humbled by Yan Ber Calloc’h, a voice snuffed out by The Great War — In the Schwarzman Library’s Map Room, in midtown Manhattan, the book was presented snug in a cardboard box. I was told that it was to be read in this room only. I took a seat across from the wood-carved globe around which the rooms’ tables and shelves seemed to orbit…

The #WeAreTwitter campaign may never achieve its goal. But it is pushing an important debate: Who should social platforms serve? — “Corporate sharks are circling around the platform we love,” the American journalist Nathan Schneider wrote in a 2016 Guardian op-ed. “But there is another way: shared ownership, where the community takes control.” Referring to the precarity of Twitter, the author went on to pose a simple question. What if, instead…

In almost every Irish bar in any town across America, look hard enough along the walls of memorabilia and bric-a-brac and you’ll find, somewhere, an image of President John F. Kennedy. The reverence most Irish-Americans have for JFK is more than just another stereotypical trope. …

Trust me — its not what it sounds like. — If you’ve ever known the dread of potentially missing out on the best of the internet’s daily churn, prepare to lay your FOMO to rest. …

Jared Spears looks at the cometary career of a celebrity revolutionary — Imprisoned inside the walls of the Bastille in 1717 accused of composing poems which mocked the family of France’s ruling Regent, twenty-three-year-old writer François Marie Arouet was hard at work on his first play. He later boasted that his cell offered him quiet time to think. It seems Arouet took…

What all of us can do to uphold truth on social media — Dissecting the fake news phenomenon, host and math blogger Cathy O’Neil offered a high estimation of Facebook users’ discerning taste on a recent episode of the Slate Money podcast. The moment arose over a firmly established flaw in Facebook’s news feed algorithm — namely, that it is heavily skewed toward…