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I’m not especially interested in the claim—made with varying degrees of confidence—that Machu Picchu was built not by the Incas but by a...

For centuries, philosophers and scientists have sought to understand the human mind through a variety of tools and conceptual...

We don’t usually think of Neanderthals and renegade philosophers in the same breath. But maybe we should. The conversation began with a...

I’ve taken classes in a lot of subjects—statistics, religious studies, black studies, philosophy, calculus, economics, accounting,...

by John-Michael Kuczynski I’ve taken real law school classes—not as a lawyer, and not as a law student. I took them as part of a deep...

I’ve been reflecting on a theme that cuts deep into both legal and political philosophy: the idea that law isn’t about discovering...

By John-Michael Kuczynski It might sound brutish or philistine to say it, but I’ll say it anyway: a great deal of what modern economists...

By John-Michael Kuczynski Suppose a Western-trained economist, stuffed full of Arrow-Debreu models and rational expectations theory, is...

By John-Michael Kuczynski There’s a lingering fantasy in modern economics—one that underwrites everything from equilibrium models to the...

By John-Michael Kuczynski Justice Antonin Scalia once said something to the effect of: "It doesn’t matter if an innocent man is found...

By John-Michael Kuczynski People often assume that if someone is wrongfully convicted, the appeals process exists to set things right....

By John-Michael Kuczynski Justice Antonin Scalia once said that it doesn’t matter if an innocent man is found guilty, so long as he was...

In academic discourse, it's common to divide the sciences into two camps: the mental  and the physical . Psychology, economics, and...

Across the history of human inquiry, disciplines have tended to fall into one of two categories, distinguished not by their subject...

cene: A bare chamber of stone and firelight. Three men are seated, equally spaced. There is no clock. No audience. Only the sound of...

Scene: A dim, fire-lit room with three chairs. No windows. No clocks. The room is old but clean—books everywhere, but unopened. A single...

Scene:  A quiet library at night. Rain on the windows. No guards, no entourage. Just two men seated across from each other, lit by the...

By John-Michael Kuczynski The real question in front of us isn’t whether AI can write. It’s whether writing  itself is about to become...

By John-Michael Kuczynski Academics claim to be worried about AI for all the usual reasons: ethical implications, misinformation, student...

By John-Michael Kuczynski People often return to the Chinese Room argument to dismiss AI as just a fancy calculator. Searle's basic point...