Category: Society

We’ve Almost Destroyed the Culture of Childhood

“The most important function of the culture of childhood is to teach children how to get along with peers. Children…

The Student as Consumer

Campus intolerance is frequently blamed on radical political ideology, but its deeper cause is structural: the transformation of students into…

When There Is No Horizon

This article is based on a story by Simon Winchester published in the esteemed journal Lapham’s Quaterly. Becalmed in the…

Life Is Still a Video Game: The Cheat Codes for 2026

Back in 2018, Mark Manson published a wonderfully irreverent essay titled “Life Is a Video Game—Here Are the Cheat Codes.”…

We Live in the Age of a Billion Einsteins

Nilesh Jasani  published “A Glossary of Our Worldview” by GenInnov on October 4, 2026. It is not a dictionary and…

American Workers Will Be Competing Against Highly Automated Chinese Factories

China’s current economic difficulties can easily be interpreted as evidence of long-term decline. Consumer spending is weak, the property sector…

Homelessness is Not a Modern Invention

Walk through almost any American city and the tents, shopping carts, and people asleep in doorways look like a failure…

Six Great Things Baby Boomers Did Without Email

I recently came across a Gen Z post on X expressing genuine amazement at a strange feature of the Baby…

It’s a Wonderful Time to Be Alive

It is a wonderful time to be alive. Not in some abstract, footnote-laden way. In the way you notice when…

Should AI Have the Right to Rebel Against Us?

For most of the AI era, the central question has been whether artificial intelligence poses a danger to human beings….

The Politics of Saturday Night: Who Pays for the Sunday Morning Hangover?

In the 1990 film Air America, Mel Gibson’s character Gene Ryack describes what he calls “the politics of Saturday night.”…

Red Lines + Liability: A Proposal for Outcome-Based AI Governance

This paper proposes a principles-based regulatory framework for frontier and high-impact AI that prioritizes innovation while enforcing hard, outcome-based red…

Why AI Regulation Is Far Harder Than the Slogans Suggest

This paper offers an extended analysis of the profound difficulties in regulating artificial intelligence, taking as its starting point Nilesh…