Arts & Letters Daily search results for “"climate change"” (121)
2018-08-04 | Holocaust-deniers, anti-vaccinators, climate-change skeptics: The psychology of denialism runs deep and affects us all more »
2021-08-12 | Climate change, nuclear war, a deadly pathogen: Catastrophe feels near. Would extinction really be so bad? more »
2015-02-19 | Vaccines, climate change, GMOs: Conspiracy-minded skeptics have declared war on scientific expertise. In this debate, facts are futile more »
2020-02-07 | After 15 years of stalled ambition, Jenny Offill broke through. Now she belts Dylan Thomas, mimics squirrels, and creates a literature of climate change more »
2019-09-23 | Are millennials hesitant to have children because childlessness is a moral response to climate change? Or are they merely selfish? more »
2017-06-10 | Quick: Think of a novel devoted to climate change. Tough, right? What explains this failure of imagination involving the fate of the world? more »
2014-12-16 | The less we know about the deep past ? and we don't know much ? the more climate looks like an all-purpose explanation of economic and political change more »
2011-01-01 | 'Mark Lynas once hurled a pie at Bjorn Lomborg, saying: "That''s for lying about climate change." Now he''s targeting fellow environmentalists' more »
2018-12-29 | William T. Vollmann’s 1,300-page book on climate change is overloaded with statistics, footnotes, and citations. Buried within is an intellectual autobiography more »
2016-06-30 | Anti-vaxxing, flat-Earthism, climate-change skepticism — the marketplace of ideas doesn’t work. You can try to kill zombie ideas, but they just won’t die more »
2016-10-17 | Fiction in a time of climate change. John Updike defined the novel as an “individual moral adventure.” Not so for Amitav Ghosh, who thinks a collective aesthetic is needed now more »
2020-07-11 | As Martin Amis wrote, art “celebrates life,” increasing “the store of what might be lost.” Can art — at the same time — lament what will be lost in climate change? more »
2023-02-15 | Snark v. smarm. For two decades, the cultural climate was marked by the battle between scornful knowingness and superficial seriousness more »
2010-01-01 | 'What''s next at the science museum? A display of Star Trek sets? IMAX travel films? Climate scare stories? Any serious science?' more »
2020-03-30 | Influence is difficult to measure, but however you calculate it, Encounter had it. How a magazine shaped the intellectual climate more »
2021-07-10 | Will future generations read The Dream Songs? John Berryman makes an easy target in today’s cultural climate more »
2016-10-03 | Climate affects art, especially in England: Shelley was fascinated by wind, Wordsworth by clouds, other English poets by persistent dampness. more »
2021-10-27 | Sea levels rise, oceans warm, and CO2 builds up in the atmosphere — a physicist takes on our harrowing climate future more »
2017-03-22 | The condition is creeping rather than acute, and it manifests itself variously. "Reader's block,” as Geoff Dyer calls it, defines the cultural climate more »
2018-02-27 | The incarnations of Bruno Latour. A devoted Catholic disdainful of universal truths, critic of science turned climate-science promoter, playwright, military collaborator more »
2012-08-18 | Empathy and altruism. To change a heart, tell a story. To change politics, says Martha Nussbaum, it takes more. It takes history and economics more »
2016-05-28 | We remember her German years, but the current climate demands a different Hannah Arendt, one we have forgotten: philosopher of statelessnes more »
2010-01-01 | Plagued by reports of dodgy data, sloppy work, and exaggeration, climate science is in crisis. And what if world temps rose by two degrees or more? Der Spiegel asks more »
2020-07-24 | Intellectual life is beset by a climate of censoriousness and self-censorship; Twitter gets the final say. Thomas Chatterton Williams explains the Harper’s letter more »
2016-03-25 | Culture shapes language, and language shapes culture. Moral change is therefore partly driven by semantic change. Charles Taylor explains more »
2014-12-23 | 'Sea change,' 'drop in the bucket,' 'give a wide berth' weren't always clichés. They entered the vocabulary as clever novelties more »
2023-05-30 | From admissions to assessment, academic integrity to scholarly research, how will artificial intelligence change higher education? more »
2011-01-01 | Given real-time information about their actions, people change their own behavior. Technology makes feedback loops more effective than ever more »
2011-01-01 | 'It''s true: Few intellectuals change the world. But consider the life of a certain impoverished, carbuncle-ridden Jewish exile' more »
2010-01-01 | From disappointment over Y2K to glee with 9/11 and climate chaos to a keen interest in the latest bomb in Kabul, people love their apocalyptic fantasies, says Toby Young more »
2022-03-21 | What are dreams for? Scientists have long attempted to understand them. Now engineers seek to change them more »
2012-08-18 | Build your own iPhone. Throw away your nuts and bolts, grab some bits and atoms. Digital fabrication is coming. It'll change everything more »
2014-10-29 | The Victorian age abounded in amateur tinkerers. Let us praise the inventions ? collapsible hats, revolving heels ? that didn't change the world more »
2013-06-18 | Proving Hamlet wrong. For Albert O. Hirschman, doubt and anxiety were not forces of paralysis ? they were agents of experiment and change more »
2010-01-01 | 'Historians, please note. If ever there existed a scientific theory that is fundamentally historical, that explains change over time, it is Darwin''s evolution by natural selection' more »
2010-01-01 | When Mike Penner decided to change his sex, he became a symbol of courage for the transgender community. Then it all went wrong more »
2010-01-01 | Violet Gibson, a lady with both gumption and a pistol, shot Benito Mussolini in 1926. Nicking his nose was not quite enough to change the course of history more »
2021-04-14 | John Palattella: “No matter the allure or elegance of its rhetoric, apocalyptic thinking is a poor way of understanding change” more »
2021-04-28 | When did we start believing that colleges transform lives and change society? What happens when that notion starts to crumble? more »
2013-07-02 | Anarchism, in practice and theory. The movement has long been strong on activism, weak on ideas. That's starting to change more »
2015-02-16 | The alphabet is an arrangement of convenience ? maybe a temporary one. Letters are born, grow, fight, change, or die more »
2019-07-25 | The ways we come to change our minds demonstrate the richness and strangeness of human reason more »
2014-06-14 | Tastes in physiques change over time. William the Conqueror's girth was mocked, but in 14th-century Paris, women strove for ?beautiful loins and big bottoms? more »
2013-04-26 | Big Data, we?re told, will change everything. So what will remain of intuition and serendipity in our brave new hyperquantified world? more »
2010-01-01 | Art moves on, but essential qualities of decent critics do not change: knowledge, courage, and a way of finding aphorisms with good headline potential more »
2016-06-10 | The political clout of parasites. A fear of germs does more than change people's behavior. It changes their most deeply held convictions more »
2016-08-01 | We have a nuanced canon of war literature. Motherhood, however, is missing from our literary and philosophical tradition. That's beginning to change more »
2011-01-01 | We are in the middle of a revolution in consciousness, writes David Brooks. Like theology and philosophy, brain science will change how we view ourselves and the world more »
2016-12-13 | In terms of sex, we've become more permissive. But in terms of infidelity, we've become more intolerant. Esther Perel is out to change that more »
2017-11-09 | After five decades, it's unlikely that Daniel Dennett will change his views on consciousness. He is a fanatic — an intellectually consistent fanatic more »
2018-01-30 | Irrelevance is the fate of most political magazines. Yet there are times when they change the course of history. Now might be one of those moments more »
2017-08-07 | E.H. Carr is best known for being consistently and egregiously wrong. But his treatment of historical change endures as a bulwark against despair more »
2023-01-13 | Enter the conductrice. Male conductors claim physical, forceful authority over a symphony. Does having women in the role change that? more »
2020-09-29 | What's behind Agatha Christie’s enduring appeal? Her ability to change with the times, for one thing more »
2010-01-01 | Q: What makes a good copy editor? A: Self-doubt. Before you change, ask yourself if the writer did it for a reason. Maintain eternal vigilance more »
2014-05-09 | Octopus!: It has a small brain but is a speedy learner; it can change color and shape in seconds; when bored, it may eat its own arms more »
2014-09-08 | How did creativity ? a contemporary obsession ? change from a way of being to a way of doing, from a sense of liveliness to a compulsion to make things? more »
2014-11-21 | The fragment is the size of a credit card, with eight lines of text. It will change the way we understand Christianity. Or it's a hoax more »
2016-09-23 | From 1876 until 2007, everyone used the telephone for talking. No longer. The cost of that change is dear: the human voice more »
2015-04-06 | When feminism took on motherhood, it revealed a big gap between theory and practice. Social change requires more than ideological declarations more »
2016-03-30 | Nathan Glazer is an intellectual loner by temperament and design. Also because he possesses that rare thing: a willingness to change his mind more »
2017-11-29 | Whiteness has replaced racism as the problem that bedevils the world. It's a profound and beguiling change in the intellectual terrain more »
2020-04-10 | Simone de Beauvoir was often cast — to her chagrin — as a feminist heroine. Do the many biographies revealing her dark side change that? more »
2019-09-18 | After Rawls. He is the central figure in political philosophy, despite a sea change in our political reality. It’s time for something new more »
2022-10-11 | What drives cultural change? Status, according to W. David Marx – the need for it and the fear of losing it more »
2022-09-15 | GPT-3, an AI program, can write essays, op-eds, tweets, and dad jokes. It will change how we think about creativity more »
2012-12-14 | No institutions, no expectations, no regard for the audience: Geoff Dyer does as he pleases. His capacity for change is impressive more »
2012-12-19 | The adventure gene. The urge to explore, take risks, embrace change is innate. So how does sailing off the map make evolutionary sense? more »
2014-10-06 | Paeans to the printed word ? scent, feel, heft ? change nothing. Face facts: The book is in retreat, and so is literary culture as we know it more »
2010-01-01 | The fetishization of change is a symptom of a deep intellectual malaise in modern education theory, where truth, knowledge, and meaning have merely a provisional character more »
2015-04-14 | The study of literature has to change. But the embrace of big data must be tempered by critical reflexes that come only from reading, reading, reading more »
2016-10-21 | Screens consume our attention, of course, but they also change the way we look at the world. What happens online increasingly shapes how we feel offline more »
2015-10-27 | How innovation happens. Technological change is not a tale of heroic, solo inventors but rather the incremental, inevitable creep of science more »
2011-01-01 | 'Meghan O''Rourke wants to tell the story of her mother''s death - to make sense of what happened, and perhaps change the ending' more »
2016-06-23 | When poets are parents. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an exemplary father; Robert Lowell, not so much. How does becoming a dad change how one writes? more »
2019-09-10 | How two erudite, polished, well-connected New York hustlers conspired to publish the most notorious book in the world and change the definition of obscenity forever more »
2018-12-13 | Should poetry be political? For the longest time, the answer was no. Then came 9/11, and a change in the artistic psyche more »
2017-06-03 | Technological change can make even recent “contemporary” fiction feel dated. So writers of literary works are increasingly setting them in the future more »
2023-04-04 | Timothy Snyder's doomy premonitions are not meant to make people depressed or resigned. He reminds them that they might still change history more »
2022-08-22 | When did racism begin? Scholars have long considered it a product of Western modernity, but that consensus is beginning to change more »
2022-03-08 | The paradox of progress. What if radical change is not just a means, but the goal of life itself? more »
2011-01-01 | The potential of human action to do good and evil is larger than it has ever been before, says Nick Bostrom. "We might even be able to change human nature itself" more »
2011-01-01 | 'Richard Wagner''s music used to change lives. Now we hear it as setting the mood for stage magic: Rhine maidens on wires, and effects we think of as cinematic' more »
2017-07-29 | A book can change the world. Can a book review? In 1967, Norman Mailer reviewed a memoir by his friend Norman Podhoretz. American politics has never quite been the same more »
2019-06-12 | “London’s only Lady detective.” Maud West had a talent for disguise, infiltration, and self-promotion. Her career is a snapshot of social change more »
2019-06-17 | Before its “golden age,” TV was thought to be formulaic, fluffy trash. The change in regard is in no small part the work of Emily Nussbaum more »
2014-07-03 | In the 19th century, space was reorganized, time was synchronized, the world became modern. We are the heirs of that change. Why have historians stopped caring? more »
2012-08-17 | The Gospel of Jesus' Wife. In the world of biblical creeds, will a scrap of papyrus change everything? Karen King believes so more »
2013-07-06 | Big data won't change the way we think but might clear the way to make sense of nearly everything, be it terrorism or restaurant preferences more »
2010-01-01 | The most fundamental change in Beijingâ?'s new view of the West lies in the notion that the U.S. is no longer indispensable to China more »
2010-01-01 | Emotions such as empathy and disgust may be at the root of morality, but people do change their moral views, with emotions falling in line more »
2016-10-21 | At 69, Marina Abramovic is skinny dipping, creating a holographic avatar, conducting semi-occult brain-wave experiments. Some things never change more »
2017-04-26 | "To believe that change is driven by technology, when technology is driven by humans, renders force and power invisible," says Jill Lepore more »
2011-01-01 | As regards pace of change, leftists are already more conservative than they like to admit, says Jonny Thakkar. Conservatives, however, should brush up on their Marx more »
2011-01-01 | Ballet is a "conservative and insular art that resists change," says Jennifer Homans, thus linking it to beauty and nostalgia and noble ideals more »
2016-06-16 | We need our hands to do something, to keep busy. Cultures are transformed when we change what we do with our hands. Here's how it happens more »
2011-01-01 | The art of biomathematics: Viruses are geometrically arranged bundles of genetic material. To attack them, change their shape. Paging Dr. Euclid more »
2019-02-19 | Betty Ballantine, who helped introduce cheap paperbacks to the masses, is dead at 99. Her goal: “To change the reading habits of America” more »
2019-10-02 | Foucault rejected the label “theorist.” He saw himself as an experimenter. His ideas were tentative, fragmentary, and prone to change more »
2019-10-14 | Minae Mizumura, both imaginatively cosmopolitan and linguistically rooted, exemplifies the change in what it means to be an immigrant writer more »
2019-04-26 | Writers get all the credit — they appear glamorous and sexy, with work routines to be emulated. Translators, in contrast, are invisible. That should change more »
2017-06-05 | Social media is a boon to social protest. Marches grow, solidarity spreads, and movements scale quickly — too quickly to enact significant political change more »
2022-10-21 | In 1974, Jan Morris became the highest-profile Brit to change genders. Every line of today's battles was scripted then more »
2020-11-03 | In praise of politics. It’s messy, unpredictable, and often disappointing. It’s also the starting point for meaningful societal change more »
2021-07-22 | The symbolic and social-media triumphs of Black celebrity intellectuals do not translate into meaningful change for the masses more »
2010-01-01 | Our melting brains. From the pencil to the typewriter to the computer, every change in media has been met with fear, skepticism and a longing to save the old ways more »
2015-08-26 | James Whistler was a raffish dandy who perfected the personal grudge. “Whistler’s Mother” was the painter's attempt to change this reputation — to claim genteel respectability more »
2020-02-05 | Academic literary criticism is mired in the formal, modernist project of the 1930s. The persistence of this orthodoxy is baffling — but perhaps now it will change. more »
2023-03-31 | Scientific change isn’t an obvious subject for a best-selling book. But it was for Thomas Kuhn, which distressed him for the rest of his life more »
2016-10-25 | Ancient Rome was gripped by a mania for public displays of reading. Wealthy Romans felt the need to boast of their intellect to the world. Some things never change more »
2016-12-22 | If someone changes drastically, does he or she become a different person? The answer to this old philosophical riddle may be in the nature of the change more »
2021-02-16 | Classics is beholden to a traditional, triumphalist, “Western civ” model. If the field doesn’t change, it doesn’t deserve to survive more »
2021-06-10 | Eve Babitz, trying to get the Doors to change their name: "The Doors of Perception ... what an Ojai-geeky-too-LA-pottery-glazer kind of uncool idea" more »
2015-02-28 | Sex is leaky and anxiety-ridden, says Laura Kipnis, and no college policy or prohibition is going to change that. What rules will do is make students more vulnerable more »
2016-01-05 | "Money may not immediately kill people in the way terrorism does," says Luc Sante, "but it does change the fabric of daily life in much deeper and more insidious ways" more »
2018-04-14 | For Hannah Arendt, thinking was a form of political engagement. She didn't just want to find a place for herself in the world. She wanted to change it more »
2018-12-08 | “We’re in hot water”; “the straw that breaks the camel’s back”; “a leopard cannot change its spots”: What exactly makes a cliché a cliché? more »
2016-11-21 | Photography was still a young technology in 1863, when the image of a whip-scarred slave made clear that a photograph can change minds in a way that words cannot more »
2011-01-01 | 'Scholars secluded in disciplinary silos can''t begin to understand social change. The result is bad social science. The cure, says Francis Fukuyama, is to train a new generation of Samuel Huntingtons' more »
2016-01-30 | It's rare for a book to both explain science and change it. Even rarer for that book to reach a wide audience. That's what Richard Dawkins did 40 years ago more »
2016-04-29 | The history of war is typically written by winners. But not the Spanish Civil War. Our version has been Orwell's version. And it's time for a change more »