Category: Culture & Ethics
Medical Authoritarianism Continues to Expand
We live in a time where individual freedom is under material threat from an emerging technocracy.
Can Everything Be Reduced to Data?
“Dataism is at odds with human flourishing. It’s difficult to find a Renaissance moment in this ruinous reductionism.”
Darwin and the Smithsonian’s Racist Brain Collection
The motivation for the brain collection was to document how some people were supposedly lower on the evolutionary ladder than others.
“Eugenicons”? Call Them What They Are — Social Darwinists
It’s sad when once-useful words turn stale and disintegrate — like losing an old friend.
Maura: The Woman Whose Brain Was Stolen and Stored by the Smithsonian
Maura was brought from the Philippines to the U.S. in 1904 to take part in one of the public displays of indigenous people at the St. Louis World’s Fair.