Arts & Humanities

There’s no such thing as a moral machine – yet. In times of digital offloading, we need to cultivate human creativity once more. After all, real thinking begins where certainty breaks down, not where it is enforced.

Christmas films like to pretend they’re harmless seasonal comfort, but history suggests otherwise. A new book examines how postwar American cinema used Christmas to negotiate politics, patriotism, and conformity under the pressures of McCarthyism.