John Fechtel

Dec 9, 2024 | thenewatlantis.com | Christine Rosen |John Fechtel |Brad East |Matthew B. Crawford

Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version If the worry during the Enlightenment, as mathematician Isaac Milner wrote in 1794, was that ‘the great and high’ have ‘forgotten that they have souls,’ then today the worry is that many of us have forgotten that we have bodies.” So writes Christine Rosen, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and senior editor of this journal, in her new book, The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World.

Jan 23, 2024 | fechtel.substack.com | John Fechtel

I feel a natural defensiveness when I hear contemporary buildings criticized for their beauty. I am not an architect, but I received a professional degree in architecture. Some of the buildings that draw public ire were designed by friends, contemporaries, or former employers. I can look at almost any building so criticized and still see the evidence of their attempts to make a mark on the world, to make spaces for people to live and work. I have to admit, though, that a lot of them really are ugly.

Oct 4, 2023 | thenewatlantis.com | John Fechtel |Alan Jacobs |Stefan Beck |Brad East

Apple’s friction eliminators want to get under your skin. Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version When Apple announced this summer that Vision Pro, its new virtual reality goggles, will be available for purchase in early 2024, the reaction was mixed. Some gawked at the price tag of $3,499. Others derided Apple for its lonely vision of the future. Yet many who have gotten an early try of the device have been blown away.