In the 1920s and 30s, a group of philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians – most prominently Rudolf Carnap, Moritz Schlick, and Otto Neurath – began meeting on campus at the University of Vienna. This period was marked both by genuine crisis –...
In January 2021, members of the /r/wallstreetbets subreddit made the stock price of GameStop ($GME) soar. As the saga drew international attention, media outlets tried to explain why an online community was now in an open conflict with Wall Street...
One night in July 1895, Sigmund Freud – then an obscure Vienna neurologist interested in hypnosis and how sexuality was determined by nose-associated “biorhythms” – had a particularly consequential dream.
The dream revolved around a patient called...
People with unusual and shocking opinions are a stalwart of daytime television talk shows. But there is a difference between platforming a conspiracy theorist as a credible source and featuring them as an object of light-hearted derision. For the...
The final season of The Leftovers – HBO’s drama about a world adapting to the aftermath of a semi-apocalyptic event – opens with a montage separate from the show’s main narrative in the present day; we’re taken to a nineteenth-century American...
So it’s RIP @realDonaldTrump. Late last week, Twitter finally announced the permanent suspension of what is surely the most consequential social media account in history. In the end, it was Wednesday’s attempted coup that turned out to be the final...
In the days following the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, media corporation Clear Channel Communications sent a memo to more than a thousand radio stations managed by the company, advising them to remove 164 songs from their...
At one point in his Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Søren Kierkegaard tells us a joke about a madman who has just broken out of an insane asylum. As he strides down the road, away from the institution, to freedom, the madman thinks to himself:...
On September 29, at nine p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, Logically’s fact checkers sat at their respective desks, their drinks of choice at their side and ninety minutes of quiet focus stretching before them. The evening was an auspicious one: the team...