Theorist and venture capitalist Matthew Ball predicts how the metaverse, the successor to the mobile internet that has defined the last two decades, will bring trillions in value and radically reshape society.

Professor William McKeen delves into the origins of rock beginning with its emergence in the 1950s.

The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: They want to leave us all behind. Five mysterious billionaires summoned theorist Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The topic? How to survive the "Event": the societal catastrophe they know is coming. Rushkoff came to understand that these men were under the influence of The Mindset, a Silicon Valley–style certainty that they and their cohort can break the laws of physics,...

Politics is fraught with rancor and resentment. Decades of rising inequality and stalled mobility have fueled a populist revolt against elites. But while the pundits focus on wages and jobs, they are missing a big part of the story: social esteem, and the broader moral dimensions of our current crisis. In recent decades, mainstream politicians across the aisle, from Reagan to Obama, have offered rhetoric of rising: everyone should be given an equal...