Aaron Timms

Has tech plunged culture into an era devoid of originality and surprise?

How digital media pursued viral traffic at all costs and unleashed chaos

Politicians and pundits across the political spectrum warn of a return to the decade of stagflation, urban decay, and labor mutiny. Their solution? The failed policies of the 1970s.

Sorokin’s novels do not “say” anything about Russia today.

His muddled defense of liberalism comes with a heavy dose of disdain for the left.

He was the dean of American cooking. He embodied some of food culture’s most persistent problems.

Population control, herd immunity, and other anti-humanist fables

In light of the climate crisis, a movement is afoot to redefine prosperity in radically minimalist fashion.

The greatest horror so far isn't the fires themselves—it's the response to them.

His data journalism blog, FiveThirtyEight, is a political website with no politics—or rather, no politics beyond a mute approval of the status quo. 

His books keep pushing the same technocratic fixes. But today’s most pressing questions cannot be depoliticized.