How do we decipher reality in such a virtual world? The technological sublime may not manifest itself as monumental physical artifacts such as the Hoover Dam, nor as the grand adventures of NASA space missions, but as exponential expansions of virtual realms, virtual money, and virtual politics....

Words are like daggers and Dante knew how to throw them. Dante engaged in an exchange of poetry (a tenzone) with a distant in-law, Forese Donati. They wrote six sonnets to each other comprised purely of insults. In his poems, Dante depicts Forese’s wife as suffering a cold because he keeps her...

Is perception reality in politics? Wouldn’t it be refreshing if politics were about substance—about ideas and facts and not about appeals to emotion and attacks on character? In recent years, there has been a rise in polarization across the citizenry. The fragmented media environment has led to a...