Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…

On the plans to hyperscale Alpha School’s “AI” tutoring software to “a billion kids.”

“I began writing this as a record of what it felt like to be a student then, as collective attachments to values—long recognized as fraying, with the knell of the next scapegoat, or horrifying…

Joseph Darda

For Mixtape # 9 we asked a few of our colleagues what recent academic monographs were on our summer reading list. What insights are we taking with us into the new academic year? What should we put …

New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.

Capitalism transforms the quest to control risk into the most reckless gambling—just look to the insurance industry.

In Andrew Brooks’s poetry, someone is always playing music, always reading poetry, there are always snacks (toasted almonds, citrus fruit, a pot of dal or stew simmering). There is dancing and crying....

Like all people not gravely deficient of soul, I teared up a little when I heard Dolly Parton died. I am by nature something of a patch of soft pavement—easily impressed upon —and so there’s not much ...

On the Interpretation of Nightmares

Not too far....

In this episode of the Podcast for Social Research Anna Kornbluh and Kate Wagner consider the aesthetics of contemporary American fascism in a conversation moderated by BISR’s Audrey Nicolaides. The f...

For many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, ...

Andrew Brooks & Astrid Lorange