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Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, author of The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics, spoke with the New York Times about the role of politics at SCOTUS (and when to curtail his own role there).
In the New York Times, Tomorrow, the World author Stephen Wertheim called for Americans to end the “imperial presidency.”
Lawrence Gostin, author of Global Health Security: A Blueprint for the Future, spoke with CNN’s Erin Burnett about full FDA approval of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine—and the slew of vaccination mandates he hopes will follow.
Ugly Feelings, Our Aesthetic Categories, and Theory of the Gimmick author Sianne Ngai spoke with the Scandinavian art review Kunstkritikk about why, in a world that is wrong, art needs to embrace error.

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Jacket: An Inquiry into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns, by Bruno Latour, translated by Catherine Porter, from Harvard University Press

In awarding Bruno Latour the 2021 Kyoto Prize for Arts and Philosophy, the Inamori Foundation said he has “revolutionized the conventional view of science” and “his philosophy re-examines ‘modernity’ based on the dualism of nature and society.” Below is an excerpt from An Inquiry into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns. For more than twenty years, scientific and technological controversies have proliferated in number and scope, eventually reaching the climate itself. Since geologists are beginning to use the term “Anthropocene” to designate the era of Earth’s history that follows the Holocene…