No. 60Fall 2019
No. 60
Fall 2019
Essays
After Climate Despair
Matt Frost argues for energy abundance in a warming world
Reviving Expertise in a Populist Age
Zach Graves and M. Anthony Mills on why a Congress wary of technocracy defers to bureaucrats
Custodians of the Body
Alan Rubenstein on how our organ donation regime strikes the right balance between generosity to the living and respect for the dead
The Mars Decision
Robert Zubrin on how to show that American democracy can still do great things
Reviews and Reconsiderations
On the Monster Beat
Clare Coffey on why the civic needs the weird
Enlightenment Later
Kent Anhari on whether reason will survive rationalism
The Ancients’ Tech Anxiety
Charles T. Rubin on the shallowness of reading mythology as sci-fi
We All Wear Tinfoil Hats Now
Geoff Shullenberger on how fears of mind control went from paranoid delusion to conventional wisdom
Trouble for Hedgehogs
Michael M. Rosen asks whether generalists are due for a comeback
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No. 61Winter 2020
No. 61
Winter 2020
Essays
The Analog City and the Digital City
L. M. Sacasas on how online life breaks the old political order
The Science Before the War
M. Anthony Mills and Mark P. Mills on how the technological feats of World War II grew out of curiosity-driven research
Eat Me, Drink Me, Like Me
Tara Isabella Burton asks whether love in the attention economy is unreal
Turing and the Uncomputable
Algis Valiunas on logic come to life
Reviews and Reconsiderations
Must Growth Doom the Planet?
Ted Nordhaus argues that in an age of stagnation, calls to limit growth miss the real problems we face.
Do We Want Dystopia?
Stefan Beck on nightmare tech as the fulfillment of warped desire
The Mathematician and the Mystic
David Guaspari on Simone Weil, her brother André, and truths that do not converge
Why We Choose Surveillance Capitalism
Michael M. Rosen argues that Americans don’t care about privacy as much as they say
Inventing the Universe
David Kordahl asks whether quantum physicists are making things up as they go along
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No. 62Fall 2020
No. 62
Fall 2020
Correspondence
In What Sense Abundant?
Patrick J. Deneen, Jeffrey Bilbro, and Rich Powell respond to Matt Frost
Essays
Democracy and the Nuclear Stalemate
Taylor Dotson and Michael Bouchey on moving beyond political scientism
The New Net Delusion
Geoff Shullenberger on how 2010’s utopians became 2020’s prophets of doom
Science as Scorekeeping
Brendan Foht on why American political leaders should be players, not spectators
Gratuitous Display
Laurence Scott on the American diner and the viral tip
How We Reason About Covid Tradeoffs
Ben Peterson on why we need to talk more about human dignity
Mending the Healers
Brewer Eberly on whether med school can still offer moral formation
Reviews & Reconsiderations
Saving Ourselves
Tara Isabella Burton on real love as rebellion in TV’s Brave New World
The End of History and the Fast Man
Adam J. White on bidding farewell to America’s car culture — and its democratic virtues
Taking Carbon to Court
Jonathan H. Adler on why a legal victory was not a clear victory for the climate
Promoting the Useful Arts
Michael M. Rosen on why innovators need protection, not planning
Go West, Old Man
John Sexton asks whether we want decline
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No. 63Winter 2021
No. 63
Winter 2021
Introducing “Projects for Renewal”
How to rebuild our culture’s relationship with science and technology
Essays
From Tech Critique to Ways of Living
Alan Jacobs asks: If Neil Postman was right, so what?
Put Not Thy Trust in Nate Silver
Geoff Shullenberger on how simulation replaced reality
Recovering Old Age
Joseph E. Davis and Paul Scherz on retrieving our sense of what aging is for
The Case Against “STEM”
M. Anthony Mills on how blurring the line between science and tech puts both at risk
The Egghead Gap
Caleb Watney on China and why the U.S. needs to recruit international talent
A Scientist’s Mind, A Poet’s Soul
Algis Valiunas on the cosmic vision of Humboldt, the great naturalist-adventurer
Of Forests and Empire
Rebecca Burgess on the view from your Christmas tree
The Coronavirus Pandemic
Disarming Frontline Doctors
Devorah Goldman on how the quest to meet medicine’s “gold standard” puts patients at risk
Little Data, Big Headlines
Aaron Rothstein on overinterpreting Covid studies for clicks
Reviews & Reconsiderations
A Bioethics of the Strong
James Mumford on how liberal bioethics forgot its mandate
Why We Need a Technological Environmentalism
Robert Zubrin argues that saving the planet means going high-tech, not back to nature
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No. 200Fall 2003 - Winter 2030
No. 1Spring 2003
No. 1
Spring 2003
Essays
Ageless Bodies, Happy Souls
Leon R. Kass on biotechnology and the pursuit of perfection
Military Technology and American Culture
Victor Davis Hanson on our character, our weapons, and our role in the world
Liberty, Privacy, and DNA Databases
Christine Rosen on the uses and dangers of genetic fingerprints
The Paradox of Conservative Bioethics
Yuval Levin on taboos, democracy, and the politics of biology
Bioethics and the Character of Human Life
Gilbert Meilaender on mortality, freedom, suffering, and the generations
The Future of Medical Technology
Scott Gottlieb on how the marriage of biology and silicon is transforming medicine
Artificial Intelligence and Human Nature
Charles T. Rubin on the project to make human beings extinct
The Rise and Fall of Sociobiology
Peter A. Lawler on the age’s three great illusions about human nature
State of the Art
Fertility Gone Mad
Pregnancy After Menopause, IVF Birth defects, & More
Bill Gates, the Prince
The Muddled Microsoft Case and Stone-Age Antitrust Laws
Mapping the Mind
Our New Techniques for Scanning the Psyche
HapMap—Revolution or Hype?
The Controversy Surrounding the Next Gene-Mapping Project
Satellites at Risk
The Next Homeland Security Challenge May Be in Space
Are We Ready for Terror?
The Latest Hart-Rudman Report and What It Missed
Oh, Behave!
Britain’s Nuffield Council Weighs in on Behavioral Genetics
Home is Where the Robot is
Vacuum Cleaners, Security Guards, and Old-Age Companions
Chinese Bioethics?
“Voluntary” Eugenics and the Prospects for Reform
The Dust Bites Another One
From Michael Crichton’s Prey to the Department of Nanotechnology
The Animal in Us
The Latest Advances in Xenotransplantation
‘Lift Your Eyes to the Heavens’
President Bush’s remarks on the loss of the space shuttle Columbia
Notes & Briefs
Nuclear Fusion, Censoring Science, Hyper-Healthcare, etc.
No. 2Summer 2003
No. 2
Summer 2003
Essays
Of Embryos and Empire
Eric Cohen on what the embryo debate can teach us about American civilization
The Nanotechnology Revolution
Adam Keiper on the science and politics of manipulating the very small
The New Face of War
David Skinner on whether new technologies make war more tolerable and more just
War and Techne
Gilbert Meilaender on the timeless truths of war
Why Conservatives Care About Biotechnology
Adam Wolfson on conservatives, biotechnology, and the American project
Human Nature is Here to Stay
Larry Arnhart on why biotechnology will not change our bodies, brains, and desires
Eugenics—Sacred and Profane
Christine Rosen on Orthodox matchmakers, IVF clinics, and genetic testing
State of the Art
Mercy and Drugs in Africa
Inside the Bush Administration’s New AIDS Policy
My Mother, the Embryo
IVF's Latest: She-Males, Fetal Eggs, and Children of the Unborn
Year of the Red Planet
An International Wave of Interplanetary Exploration
Clueless
Moral Silliness from Some Spokesmen of Science
Navel-Gazing
Bioethics and the Unbearable Whiteness of Being
Porn, Privacy, and Kids
Congressional Attempts to Make the Internet Child-Friendly
Carried Away with Convergence
The Merging of Nanotech, Biotech, Infotech, and Brain Sciences
Boys Will Be Boys
The Science of the Y Chromosome
Crackdown!
Stepping Up the Fight Against Music Piracy
Stopping Spam
As the Spam Problem Worsens, Congress Seeks a Remedy
Technology: The Great Enabler?
How Jayson Blair Conned the New York Times
‘Something History Will Not Forgive’
Excerpts from Tony Blair’s Speech to Congress, July 18, 2003
Notes & Briefs
Cloned Mules, Forgetful Mice, Camera Phones, etc.
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
