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But putting forward a theory of progress is not only a way of settling a theoretical dispute; it’s also a move with real stakes. As confidence in collective life wanes, progress can seem not merely ...

Terry Winograd is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Stanford, where he founded the Human-Computer Interaction Group.

When Plato was an infant, bees alighted on his lips and, nestling there, set about making honey. His parents had placed him, sleeping, on the summit of a mountain while they paid tribute to the gods, ...

Alex Gourevitch Alex Gourevitch is Associate Professor of Political Science at Brown University and author of From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth: Labor and Republican Liberty in the ...