Some months ago I noted that our post-truth, anti-science assaults on public reason might be reasonably traced to the Challenger disaster (I think other near-contemporaneous events like… Read more “Ohio’s assault on science is a threat to our future”

Hard on the heels of my recent participation in the conference on “Governing the Future: Digitalization, Artificial Intelligence, and Dataism”  in Thailand, this morning I found myself… Read more “A Public Option for Artificial Intelligence”

In mid-October, I had the privilege of being invited to a terrific conference on AI hosted by the German-Southeast Asian Center for Good Governance and Public Policy… Read more “Artificial intelligence, data, and the law”

In writing Deities & Demigods (and its precursor, Gods, Demigods, & Heroes), James Ward exposed millions of role-players and curious readers to the study of comparative mythology.… Read more “Dungeons & Dragons as History of Religions”

In a whirlwind of great press (all publicity must be good publicity, right?), Google launched an AI ethics review board and–within just one week–disbanded it in the… Read more “Google, AI, Ethics, and Reality”

My Fulbright-Nehru project–to explore the communities formed through dialogue about sarees, particularly handwoven sarees, on social media–has me thinking a lot about how we conceptualize the terrain… Read more “Archeologies and Architectures of Technology”

I’m delighted to post that the folks at Lexington Books have given me permission to publish an excerpt of Temples of Modernity: Nationalism, Hinduism, and Transhumanism in… Read more “Available: sample chapter from Temples of Modernity”

In my recent book, Temples of Modernity, one of my arguments is that religion, science, & technology can be integrated as a form of nationalist rhetoric. I… Read more “Science, religion, national pride”

All right; in fairness, I’m not good about blogging. I don’t know that the content of my blogging is all that good and, on top of that,… Read more “Back to the Future”

There’s something to be said for scholarship in an era of political upheaval. If nothing else, the Trump era and its lead-up provoked in me a somewhat… Read more “Politics, perspective, and composition”