Writings
Technology and society
On the belief that any organization can be reduced to its financial components and managed by formula
On risk, bailouts, and who actually bears the cost of failure
What real innovation toward a healthier social media would require
On the limits of impersonal means for knowing, or loving, another person
On the limits of fact-checking as a response to coordinated disinformation
Why the tech world needs to start thinking institutionally
European intellectual history
A review essay on two books charting shifting definitions of antisemitism
How one scholar’s account of Christianity shaped a century of debate about religion and modernity
On the historian Peter Brown and the modern practice of writing history
A historian charts the evolution of her own center-right liberalism
On the fading of the post-Auschwitz consensus against overt antisemitism
How German secularists built a belief system of their own after 1848
On the return of national identities the European project was meant to dissolve
Why the present feels increasingly discontinuous with the twentieth century