When it comes to Proposition 50, Marcia Owens is a bit fuzzy on the details. She knows, vaguely, it has something to do with how California draws the…
Read more Commentary: Payback? Power grab? Proposition 50 is California’s political ink-blot testThis article was originally published by Knowable Magazine. The stories have become horribly familiar: houses so overrun by bedbugs that the bloodsucking insects pile an inch deep on…
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Read more Americans Eat Obscene Amounts of Protein. Is It Enough?On one level, the world’s response to the coronavirus pandemic over the past two and half years was a major triumph for modern medicine. We developed COVID vaccines…
Read more The Masks We’ll Wear in the Next PandemicAcademic philosophers these days do not tend to be the subjects of overwhelming attention in the national media. The Oxford professor William MacAskill is a notable exception. In…
Read more Effective Altruism’s Philosopher King Just Wants to Be PracticalPick a memory. It could be as recent as breakfast or as distant as your first day of kindergarten. What matters is that you can really visualize it.…
Read more You’ve Probably Seen Yourself in Your Memories
