Justin Smith-Ruiu

An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it—and explains why they have died today

From sex and music to religion and politics, a history of irrationality and the ways in which it has always been with us—and always will be

A fascinating history that reveals the ways in which the pursuit of rationality often leads to an explosion of irrationality

How the role of the philosopher has changed over time and across cultures—and what it reveals about philosophy today

People have always been xenophobic, but an explicit philosophical and scientific view of human racial difference only began to emerge during the modern period. Why and how did this happen? Surveying a range of philosophical and...

Though it did not yet exist as a discrete field of scientific inquiry, biology was at the heart of many of the most important debates in seventeenth-century philosophy. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the work of G. W. Leibniz. In...