These scribbles in the margins already seem like messages from a dying age. Will the next generation of writers leave similar guides to the workings of their minds for the future? Perhaps – but not in a format we can currently comprehend. Link

Like Mount Vesuvius but at briefer intervals, Prince Charles erupts in high dudgeon over various and sundry affronts to his very particular and sometimes very peculiar notions of how life should be lived. The ghastliness of modern architecture and the superiority of homeopathic medicine—in 2004 he endorsed an alternative cancer treatment that prescribes, among other … Read more

Let me urge you to watch or to read the transcript from psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s recent presentation at the Edge.org conference. Haidt, a prominent social psychologist and researcher (see his website here) spoke on “The New Science of Morality,” in which he discussed what neuroscientists and others are learning about how humans reason morally. It’s … Read more