Joshua Rothman

published in The New Yorker
In an age where rationality in the public sphere has seemed to go out the window, Rothman reviews various books on the subject. He focuses on Bayesian reasoning as a strong method of thought in the modern world.
971 days ago

published in The New Yorker
There is both great pleasure and crippling anxiety when we imagine all of the possibilites our lives could take. What if we had made different choices? What if we were smarter, more athletic, better looking? Rothman reviews Andrew H. Miller's new book "On Not Being Someone Else: Tales of Our Unled Lives" (Harvard) and thinks about why imagining ourselves as different people is so important to us.
1205 days ago