2022 was not the year of consilience - by Erik Hoel
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The divide between the Two Cultures got worse this past year
So much happened this past year, from the Ukraine war to Elon Musk buying Twitter, that it went unnoted that this was yet another annus when the relationship between the sciences and the humanities got just a little bit worse. As it often does, it’s worth adding—year by year, what C.P. Snow called the “two cultures” become more and more antipathic. It is a slow slope, but a slippery one, and this year there were a couple examples wherein we all slipped a bit lower. How can one judge the health of the relationship of something as broad as the two cultures? One way is by looking at how…
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