No. 3Fall 2003
No. 3
Fall 2003
Essays
A New Vision for NASA
Adam Keiper on the trouble with NASA and the moral case for space exploration
Bioethics in Wartime
Eric Cohen on biology and the good life—in peace and in war
A Conversation with Nature
Steve Talbott on understanding our relationship with the natural world
From Biology to Biography
William Hurlbut on evolution and the ascent of the human person
Why Not Artificial Wombs?
Christine Rosen on the meaning of being born, not incubated
Does Digital Politics Still Matter?
Robert Atkinson and Shane Ham on the battles over information technology
The Politics of the WHO
Steven Menashi on the follies of the World Health Organization
State of the Art
‘Tis the Season?
Women off the Cycle, Men on the Pill
Caught in the Act
Tracking Cheating Hearts in the Cyber-Age
Bank on It
Britain Constructs a Universal Genetic Database
Out of Their Right Mind
Conservatism is Crazy, but Psychiatry is Here to Help
Edward Teller, RIP
The Controversial Life of the Father of the H-Bomb
Neil Postman, RIP
Culture, Technology, and the Modern Soul
The Science Journal Crisis
Disappearing Articles, Skyrocketing Costs, and Open Access
Paper and Pixel
The Web Takes Note of Books, Reference Books Discover the Web
Was Blind, But Now I See
Stem Cells, Genetics, and Bionics in the Quest for Sight
The Future of Satellites
New Problems and New Players in the Satellite Game
‘We’re the Dreamers’
Senators Hear Opposing Views on Piracy from Two Rappers
Notes & Briefs
Spammer Justice, Cloned Food, Solar Flares, etc.
No. 4Winter 2004
No. 4
Winter 2004
Science and Self-Government
Wilfred M. McClay on science and self-government
A More Child-Like Science
Steve Talbott on “better children”
Man or Machine?
Charles T. Rubin on “superior performance”
Methuselah and Us
Diana Schaub on “ageless bodies”
Restless Souls
Peter A. Lawler on “happy souls”
Essays
Romance in the Information Age
Christine Rosen on how technology is changing courtship
Imagining the Future
Yuval Levin on innovations, generations, and the biotechnology debates
The Kyoto Protocol: A Post-Mortem
S. Fred Singer on the politics of global climate change
The Scientist and the Poet
Paul A. Cantor on the surprising wrinkles in an age-old rivalry
The Right Plan
Adam Keiper on the plan and its critics
The Virtual Astronaut
Robert Park on the virtual astronaut
The Human Explorer
Robert Zubrin on the human explorer
State of the Art
The Age of Cloning
Breakthrough in South Korea, Stalemate in the Senate
Do Embryos Vote?
Stem Cell Politics in an Election Year
The Nanotech Schism
High-Tech Pants or Molecular Revolution?
Online Democracy
Why the Era of E-Voting Will Have to Wait
Life is Just a Game
The Rise of Video Games in American Culture
The Ideological Environmentalist
Challenging the Orthodoxy of “Green” Science
Click Twice and Call Me in the Morning
The Growing Underground Market in Prescription Drugs
History Repeating?
The Peculiar Comeback of Eugenics
Gatekeepers of Science
Peer Review Controversies at Home and Abroad
Power-Hungry China
The International Consequences of China’s Quest for Energy
‘The Seams that Hold Us Back’
Bill Gates on Hardware, Software, and the Next Step in Computing
Notes & Briefs
Face Transplants, Text-Message Weddings, Aerogel, etc.
No. 5Spring 2004
No. 5
Spring 2004
Essays
Energy Dreams and Energy Realities
Stephanie Cohen on liberals, conservatives, and the energy debate
The Democratization of Beauty
Christine Rosen on cosmetic surgery and American culture
The Dilemmas of German Bioethics
Eric Brown on the taboos of the Nazi past and the future of human dignity
The Legacy of Nazi Medicine
Naomi Schaefer on a powerful new exhibit at the U.S. Holocaust Museum
Technology and the Constitution
O. Carter Snead on how new technologies affect judicial interpretation
Nuclear 1914: The Next Big Worry
Henry Sokolski on the problem of nuclear proliferation in the age of terrorism
Getting Serious About IVF
Adam Wolfson on the new report from the President’s Council on Bioethics
Memory and the Movies
James Bowman on remembering and forgetting through the eyes of Hollywood
State of the Art
Dot-Com Terrorism
How Radical Islam Uses the Internet to Fight the West
Campaigning for Stem Cells
Research Advocates Launch a New Offensive for Funding
Daniel J. Boorstin, RIP
Historian, Critic, and American Man of Books
Gaga Over Google
More than a Search Engine, Less than a Mind
Life from Scratch
Promise, Peril, and Pathogens: Breakthroughs in Synthetic Biology
Science Goes Hollywood
Selective Outrage over the Latest Movie Inaccuracies
Red Planet, Wet Planet
Developments in the Search for Life on Mars
Miles Still to Go
DARPA and the Great Robot Race
The Science of Human Potential
Public Dialogue about Behavioral Genetics
One of Us
The Anatomy of Acceptance
‘The Course We Must Maintain’
Vice President Cheney on Proliferation and Cooperation
Notes & Briefs
Stamping Out Spam, Euthanasia News, Books Online, etc.
No. 6Summer 2004
No. 6
Summer 2004
Essays
The Human Face of Alzheimer’s
Colleen Carroll Campbell on the medical, ethical, and personal aspects of dementia
Stem Cells and the Reagan Legacy
Gilbert Meilaender on hubris and limits in the embryo research debate
Our Cell Phones, Ourselves
Christine Rosen on the consequences of ignoring the world around us
The Path Not Taken
Rand Simberg on the myths of the old space age and what comes next
Our Asterisked Heroes
Douglas Kern on human excellence in the age of performance-enhancing drugs
Film and TV in Anxious Times
Thomas S. Hibbs on fantasy film, reality TV, and American life after 9/11
State of the Art
The Assassin’s Mace
China’s Growing Military Might
The Stem Cell Race
John Kerry and the Democrats Search for an Issue
America at 10 M.P.H.
The Slow But Steady Rise of Segway
The Big Change
The End of Menopause and Its Meaning
It’s Getting Easier Being Green
Permaculture Goes Mainstream
Francis Crick, RIP
The Man, the Mind, and the Molecule
Doping for Seconds
The Shadow of Drugs on American Athletics
‘Higher Standards’
Eliot Spitzer on the Pharmaceutical Industry
Notes & Briefs
Nano News, Robot Nurses, Racing Sperm, etc.
No. 7Fall 2004 - Winter 2005
No. 7
Fall 2004 - Winter 2005
Essays
Science and Congress
Adam Keiper on science advice and the legacy of the Office of Technology Assessment
The Age of Egocasting
Christine Rosen on TiVo, iPod, and technologies of fetish
Human Growth Hormone and the Measure of Man
Dov Fox on height enhancement and the new tyranny of the normal
Acorns and Embryos
Robert P. George and Patrick Lee on moral standing and bad metaphors
The Tragedy of Equality
Eric Cohen on the uses of reason, the absurdity of disease, and the quest for justice
Human Frailty and Human Dignity
Leon R. Kass responds to Eric Cohen’s essay
The Crisis of Everyday Life
Yuval Levin responds to Eric Cohen’s essay
In What Sense Equal?
Amy Laura Hall responds to Eric Cohen’s essay
State of the Art
I’ve Got You Under My Skin
Tracking Technology Gets Personal
Black Box Ballyhoo
Voting Technology in the 2004 Election
Gray Matter in the Courtroom
Neuroscience as Legal Evidence
Debunking the Digital Classroom
Rethinking the Virtues of “Tech Literacy”
The Cloning Logjam
Treaty Talks Break Down at the United Nations
The Encyclopedia in Cyberspace
Wikipedia Makes Every Man an Editor
‘A Second Kind of Frontier’
The X Prize Triumph and the Future of Space Travel
No. 8Spring 2005
No. 8
Spring 2005
Essays
The Caregiving Society
Peter Augustine Lawler on caring for the old in an age of individualism
Getting Space Exploration Right
Robert Zubrin on making the Moon-Mars initiative work
Science Education and Liberal Education
Matthew B. Crawford on the trouble with today’s textbooks
Logic, DNA, and Poetry
Steve Talbott on how bad metaphors make for bad science
Daedalus and Icarus Revisited
Charles T. Rubin on science, the future, and the Haldane-Russell debate
Bioethics at the Movies
James Bowman on abortion, euthanasia, and Hollywood
State of the Art
The Embryo Wars
The U.N., Mitt Romney, and California Corruption
DNA Dragnets
The Uses and Abuses of Genetic Information
Blogs Gone Bad
The Darker Side of the Blogging Boom
Crimson Recriminations
Larry Summers vs. The Harvard Feminists
‘A Profound Loss as a Culture’
Debating Copyright in the Digital Age
Notes & Briefs
Space Tourism, Tsunami Hucksters, Artificial Friends, etc.
No. 9Summer 2005
No. 9
Summer 2005
Essays
Playgrounds of the Self
Christine Rosen on video games and modern identity
The Real Meaning of Genetics
Eric Cohen on the false fears and genuine dilemmas of modern genetics
The Computerized Academy
Matthew B. Crawford on information technology and the life of the mind
Technology and the Spirit of Ownership
Paul J. Cella III on private property as a cure for the ills of the technology age
Science, Technology, and The Public Interest
Excerpts from forty years of “a middle-aged magazine for middle-aged readers”
State of the Art
How We Measure Up
Is American Math and Science Education in Decline?
Shooting Not to Kill
America’s Development and Use of Non-Lethal Weapons
The New NASA
Mike Griffin Takes the Helm and Transforms the Agency
To Boldly Go
The end of Star Trek and Star Wars
Checking Terrorists at the Door
Small Hopes for The Real ID Act
‘An Unknowable Atom of Human Flesh’
Henry Hyde and Joe Barton on the Ethics of Stem Cell Research
Notes & Briefs
Russia’s Blackout, Los Alamos Woes, Paris Hilton, etc.
No. 10Fall 2005
No. 10
Fall 2005
Essays
Conservatives, Liberals, and Medical Progress
Daniel Callahan on politics, death, and the future of modern medicine
The Moral Education of Doctors
Philip Overby on shaping the souls of aspiring physicians
The Image Culture
Christine Rosen on Photoshop, PowerPoint, and our perception of reality
Buggy Software and Missile Defense
Mark Halpern on writing code and protecting the country
Love in the Age of Neuroscience
Mickey Craig and Jon Fennell on Tom Wolfe’s I Am Charlotte Simmons
Reconsideration
Francis Bacon’s God
Stephen A. McKnight reconsiders the religious foundations of the “New Atlantis”
Excerpt
The Aging Self
A selection from Taking Care, a report by the President’s Council on Bioethics
State of the Art
The Lessons of Katrina
Natural Horrors and Modern Technology
Relaunching NASA
Back to the Moon by 2018—Or Sooner
Bush-League Science
Are Republicans Conducting a “War on Science”?
Cicely Saunders, RIP
Remembering the Founder of the Hospice Movement
Hollywood’s Fertile Imagination
Baby-Making Goes Prime Time
Chief Justice at the Bedside
John Roberts and the End of Life
No. 11Winter 2006
No. 11
Winter 2006
Essays
The Age of Neuroelectronics
Adam Keiper on neural implants, brain-machine interfaces, and cyborg fantasies
The Trouble with the Turing Test
Mark Halpern on the fallacy of thinking computers
The Rhetoric of Extinction
Charles T. Rubin reviews four recent books on transhumanism
Are We Worthy of Our Kitchens?
Christine Rosen on expensive appliances and modern families
Who Owns the Genome?
Misha Angrist and Robert M. Cook-Deegan on intellectual property and genomics
Excerpt
The Rise of Guerrilla Media
Glenn Reynolds on blogs, Big Media, and the future of journalism
State of the Art
Human Cloning and Scientific Corruption
The South Korea Scandal and the Future of the Stem Cell Debate
The U.N.’s Net Gambit
Internationalizing Internet Governance
The $100 Laptop
A Flawed Plan to “Save the World”
Morals and the Mind
Michael Gazzaniga’s Ethical Brain
‘No Nation Can Afford to Ignore This Threat’
America Prepares for Avian Flu
Notes & Briefs
Science Education, Wikipedia’s Accuracy, Mozart’s Skull, etc.
No. 12Spring 2006
No. 12
Spring 2006
Essays
Biotechnology and the Spirit of Capitalism
Eric Cohen on the new commerce of the body
The Promise and Perils of Synthetic Biology
Jonathan B. Tucker and Raymond A. Zilinskas on regulating designer microbes
The Mislabeled Child
Brock L. Eide and Fernette F. Eide on the failure of kindergarten neurochemistry
The Many Casualties of Cloning
Richard M. Doerflinger on the lessons of the South Korean fraud
Reviews and Reconsiderations
The God Meme
Charles T. Rubin on Daniel Dennett’s unconvincing theory
Jules Verne: Father of Science Fiction?
John Derbyshire on Verne’s lesser-known works
Polio Stories
Philip J. Overby on the meaning of a forgotten epidemic
The Age of Female Computers
David Skinner on the burdens of pre-machine mathematics
A Clone’s Lament
James Bowman on life as a useful pre-cadaver
State of the Art
Censoring Scientists?
Lessons of the James Hansen Affair
Stem Cell Spin
The Bush Policy and Its Unreasonable Critics
Stuck with the Old, In with the New
NASA’s Budgetary Balancing Act
Addicted to Bad Data
Getting the Facts Straight on Ethanol
Apocalypse Averted
The BlackBerry Settlement and Patent Reform
‘Predators Are Becoming More Sophisticated’
Pornographers and Pedophiles Online
No. 13Summer 2006
No. 13
Summer 2006
Essays
Shop Class as Soulcraft
Matthew B. Crawford makes a case for the manual trades
Gifts of the Body
Gilbert Meilaender on organs, markets, and the ethics of transplantation
The Self-Portrait of a Scientist
Christine Rosen on wonder, mastery, and fame in scientific memoir
A Third Way on Network Neutrality
Robert D. Atkinson and Philip J. Weiser on the battle over broadband
The First Fourteen Days of Human Life
Patrick Lee and Robert P. George on the biology of the early embryo
The Myth of Thomas Szasz
Jeffrey Oliver on the legacy of psychiatry’s forgotten critic
Reviews and Reconsiderations
The Methanol Alternative
Robert Zubrin on how to alleviate our energy problems
Medicine Without Limits
Daniel P. Sulmasy on therapy, enhancement, and sophistry
Babies for Sale
Cheryl Miller on buying and selling our offspring
On the Shelf
Quick Takes on The Father of Surgery, Box Boats, Cloning and the Law, etc.
State of the Art
China’s Phony Science
Exposing Corruption, Plagiarism, and Fraud
Rethinking Peer Review
How the Internet is Changing Science Journals
Cyber-Insecurity
Computer Theft Puts Veterans’ Data at Risk
Sexist Science?
A “She Said, He Said” About Discrimination in the Lab
‘Stumbling into a Powerful Technology’
Baroness Greenfield on New Media and Young Minds
Notes & Briefs
Sex Selection, Chernobyl, Bottled Water, etc.
No. 14Fall 2006
No. 14
Fall 2006
Correspondence
The Beginning of Life; An Unbalanced Diagnosis; The Enhancement Wars; Three Cheers for Craftsmanship
Essays
The Paradox of Military Technology
Max Boot on American power and American vulnerability
The Moral Challenge of Modern Science
Yuval Levin on politics, ethics, and the scientific worldview
The Case for Kidney Markets
Benjamin Hippen on how to solve the kidney shortage
Is the Body Property?
Peter Augustine Lawler on rights, dignity, and organ sales
Reviews and Reconsiderations
Beyond the Right to Life
Wilfred M. McClay on the “Party of Death”
The Agony of Atomic Genius
Algis Valiunas on the tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Cloning’s Apologist
Caitrin Nicol on Ian Wilmut’s defense of research cloning
C. S. Lewis Goes to the Laboratory
Thomas W. Merrill on the science and faith of Francis Collins
State of the Art
Too Speculative?
Henry Sokolski
The Dotcomrade
Brian Boyd
The Touchy-Feely Laboratory
Christine Rosen
Space Deals
Rand Simberg
Eco-Censorship
Iain Murray
Techno-Horror in Hollywood
Sonny Bunch
‘Oblivious’
Rush Holt on Science, Technology, and Congress
Notes & Briefs
Healthier People, Sicker Oceans, Electronic Books, etc.
No. 15Winter 2007
No. 15
Winter 2007
Essays
The Hydrogen Hoax
Robert Zubrin on energy charlatans and the politicians who love them
In Whose Image Shall We Die?
Eric Cohen on living well and dying well
The Language of Nature
Steve Talbott on how science drains meaning from experience
The Scientific Mind of Ben Franklin
Jerry Weinberger on America’s first Baconian
Reviews and Reconsiderations
The Red Plague
Cheryl Miller on how China bungled SARS
Psychiatry’s Healer
Philip J. Overby on the medical humanism of Paul McHugh
Our Childless Dystopia
James Bowman on P. D. James’s The Children of Men, as novel and film
Immortality Lite
Ross Douthat on the sublime and the foolish in Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain
Theory Wars, Again
Matthew B. Crawford on reason and relativism in the academy
State of the Art
Sucker-Me Elmo
Christine Rosen
The Electoral Politics of Stem Cells
Yuval Levin
Cloning Down Under
Michael Casey
Dead Body Porn
Thomas S. Hibbs
Back to the Moon, To Stay?
Jeff Foust
Bioethics and The Public Interest
A Journal’s Lasting Legacy
No. 16Spring 2007
No. 16
Spring 2007
Essays
China’s Space Ambitions—and Ours
Jeff Kueter on the Chinese threat to American space assets and what to do about it
The Right to Life and Human Dignity
Leon R. Kass on Thomas Hobbes as a teacher of dignity
Brave New World at 75
Caitrin Nicol on reading Aldous Huxley’s novel as its first readers did
Nanoethics as a Discipline?
Adam Keiper on the proliferation of professional nanotechnology criticism
Reviews and Reconsiderations
What’s Ailing Health Care?
James C. Capretta on markets, medicine, and the limits of government
The Half-Bound World
John Derbyshire reviews Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle
The Greening of Capitalism
Nick Schulz on environmentalism as corporate exhibitionism
The Problem with Plagiarism
Jeremy Lott on the timeless drama of the copycat
Political Pseudoscience
Matthew B. Crawford on why political science is not physics
State of the Art
Reforming NIH
Yuval Levin
Energy Incrementalism
Stephanie Cohen
Seeing and Believing
Peter Suderman
What Lies Within
Christine Rosen
Digilante Justice
Ruth Martin
‘A Critical Part of the Solution’
Al Gore and the Nuclear Debate
Notes & Briefs
Sonofusion, Burnt Sponges, Smelling Technosexual, etc.
No. 17Summer 2007
No. 17
Summer 2007
Essays
Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism
Christine Rosen on MySpace, Facebook, and the costs of social networking
Human Dignity and Public Bioethics
Gilbert Meilaender on dignity as a useful concept
Melancholy’s Whole Physician
Algis Valiunas reads Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy
Heroism, Modernism, and the Utopian Impulse
James Bowman on cowboys, communists, and dreams of perfection
Reviews and Reconsiderations
Drug Addiction and the Open Society
Lee Harris on freedom and self-mastery
Parenthood at Any Price
Cheryl Miller reviews Liza Mundy’s Everything Conceivable
Intimations of the Soul
Paul J. Cella III on idolatry in the Age of Machines
Devaluing Science
Jonathan H. Adler on scientists and politics
State of the Art
‘Less Morally Problematic Alternatives’
Yuval Levin
Soldiers for Rent
Habib Moody
The Man in the Moon
Stephen Bertman
Faces Disappearing
Richard W. Sams II
‘For Better or Worse’
Tony Blair on Politics and the Media
Notes & Briefs
Live Earth, Mr. Wizard, Solving Checkers, etc.
