December 1, 2011
The Global War Against Baby Girls
In many countries, the ratio of newborn boys to girls has skewed dramatically. Nicholas Eberstadt explains that the...
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December 1, 2011
Christianity and the Future of the Book
Alan Jacobs on scrolls, screens, and how technologies of reading shape theology.
December 1, 2011
Evolution and the Illusion of Randomness
Is evolution random and meaningless? In the ‘survival of the fittest,’ what counts as ‘fitness’? As Stephen L....
November 7, 2011
The Problem with ‘Friendly’ Artificial Intelligence
Why we can never guarantee that robots won't kill us all
October 26, 2011
Justice without Foundations
Every age has beliefs about the good life and about ultimate reality that seem normal at the time but are strange and...
October 26, 2011
The Case for Enhancing People
Does the enhancement of human physical and intellectual capacities undermine virtue? In answering this question, we...
October 26, 2011
Liberation Biology, Lost in the Cosmos
It is never easy to argue with a libertarian, particularly one as intelligent and well-informed as Ronald Bailey. His...
October 26, 2011
Machine Morality and Human Responsibility
Charles T. Rubin on the paradoxes of the project to program virtue
October 26, 2011
Why We Need a ‘Stuck with Virtue’ Science
Peter A. Lawler and Marc D. Guerra on why in-between beings will always need virtue.
October 26, 2011
The Science of Politics and the Conquest of Nature
For the ancients, man was bound by but not wholly defined as part of nature. The studies of natural phenomena and human...