Three books push back on a rising tide of optimism about space settlements. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are bitter rivals in the commercial space race, but they agree on one thing: Settling space is an ...
“I’ve tried and failed to be a cheerleader for the pure abstraction of wilderness,” Erica Watson writes in “Ghosts of Distant Trees,” her debut essay collection, “but I always find myself drawn back ...
In “The Arrogant Ape,” the primatologist Christine Webb takes a hard look at our human superiority complex, and is not impressed. By William Egginton William Egginton teaches literature and philosophy ...