Roy Scranton, University of Notre Dame
No one uses “Malthusian” as a compliment. Since 1798, when the economist and cleric Thomas Malthus first published “An Essay on the Principles of Population,” the “Malthusian” position...
Perin Gürel, University of Notre Dame
Fear of reprisals from the Trump administration has made many people cautious about expressing their opinions. Fired federal workers are asking not to be quoted by their name,...
Jennifer L. Steele, American University
For the past half-century, the jobs that have commanded the greatest earnings have increasingly concentrated on knowledge work, especially in science and technology.
Now with the...
Louis Tay, Purdue University
Many employers are demanding more from workers these days, pushing them to log as many hours as possible.
Google, for example, told all its employees that they...
Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University
Recently, Delta Air Lines announced it would expand its use of artificial intelligence to provide individualized prices to customers. This move sparked concern among flyers and politicians. But Delta...
Leslie Root, University of Colorado Boulder; Karen Benjamin Guzzo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Shelley Clark, McGill University
Pronatalism – the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must...
Aaron French, Kennesaw State University
Back in 2008, The Atlantic sparked controversy with a provocative cover story: Is Google Making Us Stupid?
In that 4,000-word essay, later expanded into a book,...
Ryan Leack, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
In my writing and rhetoric courses, students have plenty of opinions on whether AI is intelligent: how well it can assess, analyze, evaluate and...
