This week, I’ve been thinking about figuring out how to act in the world when we genuinely don’t understand what’s happening in the world. Last Sunday night, I was reading an article about one particular aspect of the instabilities in the global economy caused by the authoritarian regime in the United States. As I was …
A lot of Serious People who do Serious Things when it comes to knowledge tend to treat stories and other kinds of experience-based narratives as inherently suspect and not terribly useful. Some do this from a sort of empiricist place, an unreconstructed Enlightment approach to knowledge in which our best approximation of accuracy and reliability, …