Contributions
Social sciences claim the rigor of prediction, yet many of their findings resemble premonition. Comparing sociology to alchemy and economics to crystal-ball forecasting, this essay argues that scientific authority can become a form of magical thinking, and that the world's magic is not dispelled.
Fukuyama declared history's end in liberal democracy; this essay proposes another ending. As information floods the digital age, the amount of events outpaces our capacity to understand them, and distrust erodes truth itself. Will we escape this bottleneck, or return to a neo-medieval world?