Cultural Software is Up

John Donne knew that an island is a bad metaphor for a man, so Jack Balkin has provided a new comparison for humans: a computer. Balkin’s Cultural Software is now up and free for reading and annotation. Cultural Software suggests a new method to explaining why cultures of the same species evolve so differently. Human ...

Cultural Software

Jack Balkin’s 1998 classic is coming soon to Yale Books Unbound. Cultural Software explained ideology as a result of the cultural evolution of bits of cultural knowhow, or memes. It was the first book to apply theories of cultural evolution to the problem of ideology and justice.