Society

Spending Time With A Person You Love

Or do you? A discussion about time offline on the CRITICAL CONDITIONS podcast, Ep. 64

Jun 1 • Dan Perry

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Ghosts Over Berlin

The strange calm of a reunited city where the past is everywhere and nowhere

May 30 • Dan Perry

Getting Our Bearings

SUNDAY READ: How a language built at sea and forged in battle came to steer the world

May 17 • Dan Perry

My Desperate Debate with Top Haredi Rabbis

SUNDAY READ: These discussions underscored how the Jewish state is facing the world's most intensive internal cultural war

May 10 • Dan Perry

SUNDAY READ: For centuries, we defined ourselves by work. Artificial intelligence is making that less plausible. AQL offers a seditious — but possibly…

Apr 19 • Dan Perry

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. It Will Be Algorithmically Amplified, If Profitable.

A major victory has occurred in humanity's effort to save itself from social media

Mar 26 • Dan Perry

The Real World Series?

Baseball is not the global game that soccer is, that's true. But its actual world championship - the "World Baseball Classic - is not played in October.

Mar 21 • Dan Perry

The Tyranny of the Early Riser

On World Sleep Day, we reoffer our cri de coeur on behalf of night owls everywhere

Mar 13 • Dan Perry

The Constitution That Forgot Women

International Women’s Day should remind us that the US still has not managed to write a simple sentence into its founding document: that women are equal…

Mar 9 • Dan Perry

The Focus Group That Never Sleeps

How synthetic citizens are about to transform decision-making

Mar 4 • Dan Perry

Read Zuck the Riot Act

Convictions, algorithm regulation, titanic fines, and teen bans are needed to focus the minds of the arrogant tech oligarchs

Feb 19 • Dan Perry

Farewell, Mark Campbell

There is more to life than agreeing about politics

Nov 28, 2025 • Dan Perry

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