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What Our Relationship With Cats Reveals About Ourselves

What Our Relationship With Cats Reveals About Ourselves

Rebecca van Laer: “If dogs are our servants, cats are our shadows.”

By Rebecca van Laer | September 30, 2025

We’re Already at Risk of Ceding Our Humanity to AI

We’re Already at Risk of Ceding Our Humanity to AI

Surekha Davies on Machines, Monsters and Why Humanity is Still Worth Fighting For

By Surekha Davies | February 6, 2025

Elspeth Barker on Jealousy, Truest of Human Vices

Elspeth Barker on Jealousy, Truest of Human Vices

“Female jealousy is associated with witchery, bitchery, dementia, and underhand behavior.”

By Elspeth Barker | March 20, 2024

Mariana Alessandri on How the Natural Human Condition is to Live in Darkness, Anger, and Pain

Mariana Alessandri on How the Natural Human Condition is to Live in Darkness, Anger, and Pain

Keen On">In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 10, 2023

Tiffany Shlain on the History of Feminism, Tree Rings, and “Dendrofemonology”

Tiffany Shlain on the History of Feminism, Tree Rings, and “Dendrofemonology”

Keen On">In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 20, 2023

“A House is Just a Pile of Stuff with a Cover on It.” When Less Really is More

“A House is Just a Pile of Stuff with a Cover on It.” When Less Really is More

Leidy Klotz on How Hard It Can Be to Truly Subtract From Our Lives

By Leidy Klotz | April 30, 2021

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