Cultures of chance, cultures of control

Cultures of chance, cultures of control

Historian Jackson Lears explains how gambling springs from a longing for an experience of “unbidden beneficence,” a repudiation of the idea of control that marks modernity. (49 minutes)
Seeking control, in white magic and The Green Book

Seeking control, in white magic and The Green Book

Alan Jacobs on C. S. Lewis’s critique of the modern pursuit of god-like control