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No. 38Winter/Spring 2013

No. 38

Winter/Spring 2013

Editorial

The Record of Our “Scientist-in-Chief”

Regarding Animals

Do Elephants Have Souls?

Caitrin Nicol on the evidence for non-human intelligence, awareness, and emotion

Born to Run

Noemie Emery considers the good, the bad, and the ugly of horseracing

Dog’s Best Friend

Diana Schaub on disciplining pets and mastering ourselves
Essays

St. Francis, Christian Love, and the Biotechnological Future

William B. Hurlbut reflects on hubris and humility, suffering and redemption

Character Formation and the Origins of AA

Lewis M. Andrews on the forgotten legacy of early American college presidents
The Evolution of Human Nature

Swords into Syllogisms

Randal R. Hendrickson on Steven Pinker and reason’s progress against violence

Portrait of the Artist as a Caveman

Micah Mattix on just-so storytelling and the “art instinct”

The Evolutionary Ethics of E. O. Wilson

Whitley Kaufman on the moral paradoxes of sociobiology

Moderately Socially Conservative Darwinians

Peter Augustine Lawler on the surprisingly traditional values of evolutionary psychologists
Reviews and Reconsiderations

Criminal Elements

James Bowman on Breaking Bad and breaking with the Enlightenment

The Imperfectionist

Christine Rosen on Evgeny Morozov’s case against digital salvation

Experiments in Democracy

Jeremy Rozansky reviews Jim Manzi’s new book on data-driven public policy

Jurassic Generation

Ari N. Schulman on the unintended consequences of the twenty-year-old dinosaur movie
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No. 39Summer 2013

No. 39

Summer 2013

Essays

Philanthropy’s Original Sin

William A. Schambra on U.S. foundations’ legacy of support for eugenics, and the charitable alternative to scientific progressivism

Science and Non-Science in Liberal Education

Harvey C. Mansfield on the confidence of scientists and the need for philosophy

The Secular Religions of Progress

Robert H. Nelson on economic philosophies, environmentalism, and growth

The Good Doctor

Daniel P. Sulmasy remembers the late Dr. Edmund Pellegrino
Symposium on Science, Technology, and Religion

The Golem and the Limits of Artifice

Charles T. Rubin on what the Jewish legend can (and cannot) teach us about bioethics

Disenchantment and Its Discontents

Joseph Bottum on why Catholics need not choose between science and wonder

Redeeming Technologies

Timothy Dalrymple on how Evangelicals embrace technological innovation

The Trouble with the New “Islamic Science”

Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad on trying to read the Koran like a science textbook

Implicit Science in Hindu Thought

Varadaraja V. Raman on the foreshadowing of modern science in ancient Hinduism

Science through Buddhist Eyes

Martin J. Verhoeven on the imperfect harmonizing of Buddhism with science

Science and the Search for Meaning

Peter Morales on Unitarian Universalism and what science and religion share
Reviews and Reconsiderations

Bringing Mind to Matter

Raymond Tallis on Thomas Nagel’s defiance of the materialist mainstream

The Conservative Record on Environmental Policy

Jonathan H. Adler disputes the notion that anti-regulation means anti-environment
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No. 40Fall 2013

No. 40

Fall 2013

Essays

Me, My Genome, and 23andMe

Austin L. Hughes on the oversold and underwhelming science of personal genomics

Why and How We Should Break OPEC Now

Robert Zubrin explains what the U.S. energy boom means for the oil cartel, and argues that we should kick them while we’re up

Scientism in the Arts and Humanities

Roger Scruton on why art is more than matter and meme

Tocqueville on Technology

Benjamin Storey responds to critics who say the student of democracy ignores technology

Brave New World, Plato’s Republic, and Our Scientific Regime

Matthew J. Franck compares the utopian visions of Huxley and Plato 
Reviews and Reconsiderations

The Hollowness of Radical Bioethics

John Sexton on why leftist bioethics needs philosophical anthropology

When Finance Met Physics

R. McKay Stangler on why stock trading isn’t rocket science
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No. 41Winter 2014

No. 41

Winter 2014

Essays

Fantasy and the Buffered Self

Alan Jacobs on how the genre offers re-enchantment without risk

Toward a Conservative Policy on Climate Change

Lee Lane on clashing worldviews, green politics, and a path forward

Gambling with Global Warming

Lowell Pritchard on risk and uncertainty in environmental economics

The Sacred Power of the World

Stephen D. Blackmer on his improbable journey from eco-activism to the priesthood

Understanding Heidegger on Technology

Mark Blitz on what we can learn from the controversial German philosopher

The Genius and Faith of Faraday and Maxwell

Ian H. Hutchinson on how religion influenced the work of the two great nineteenth-century electricians

Who Needs a Liberal Education?

Gilbert Meilaender on specialization, job training, and the humanities

Machine Grading and Moral Learning

Joshua Schulz on the misguided appeal of automated grading and the rise of factory education

When Technology Ceases to Amaze

Robert Herritt on the banality of high-tech magic
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No. 42Spring 2014

No. 42

Spring 2014

The Great War at 100

The Invention of the War Machine

M. Anthony Mills and Mark P. Mills on how the war shaped science, technology, and military-industrial research

The Forgotten Honor of World War I

James Bowman responds to progressive historians who consider the war a mistake that could have been avoided
Essays

My Brain and I

Roger Scruton offers an alternative to the grand ambition of the neurophilosophers

The Optimistic Science of Leibniz

Marc E. Bobro on the Enlightenment thinker’s encyclopedic project of physics and faith

A Feeling for Pain

Ronald W. Dworkin on the trouble with scientific explanations in anesthesiology

Evolution and Ethics, Revisited

Gertrude Himmelfarb considers T. H. Huxley’s rebuttal of an early form of scientism

Liberty and the Environment

Ronald Bailey on whether modern societies and free economies are antithetical to the flourishing of the natural world

Remembering Thomas P. Hughes

G. Pascal Zachary on the influential historian of technology and society
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No. 43Summer/Fall 2014

No. 43

Summer/Fall 2014

Correspondence

Elephants, Horses, Dogs, and Us; The Question Concerning Heidegger

Essays

Losing Liberty in an Age of Access

James Poulos on the implications of the cultural shift away from ownership

Correlation, Causation, and Confusion

Nick Barrowman on some misconceptions about statistics in science and everyday life

Confronting the Technological Society

Samuel Matlack revisits Jacques Ellul’s classic analysis of technique

Modernity and Our American Heresies

Peter Augustine Lawler explains how our Puritan and Lockean founders built better than they knew

The Neuroscience of Despair

Michael W. Begun on the trouble with seeing depression solely as a brain malfunction
Reviews and Reconsiderations

Regarding Life at the Beginning

Gilbert Meilaender on a perceptive new book about abortion and our encounter with the unborn

The Tools of Their Tools

Evan Selinger and Jathan Sadowski review Nicholas Carr’s book on automation

In Defense of Prejudice, Sort of

Ari N. Schulman on Enlightenment overreach and today’s new rationalists
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No. 44Winter 2015

No. 44

Winter 2015

Essays

Vaccines and Their Critics, Then and Now

Aaron Rothstein on the history and errors of the anti-vaccination movement

Virtual Reality as Moral Ideal

Matthew B. Crawford on learning how to live in a world that resists our will

Philanthropy in Science, Technology, and Medicine

Selections from The Almanac of American Philanthropy
The Unknown Newton

Church, Heresy, and Pure Religion

Rob Iliffe on Newton's unorthodox theology and his project to restore Christianity

The Problem of Alchemy

William R. Newman asks whether Newton truly was “the last of the magicians”

Cosmos and Apocalypse

Stephen D. Snobelen on physics, prophecy, and the myth of Newton's clockwork universe

The Book of Nature, the Book of Scripture

Andrew Janiak on reconciling natural philosophy with biblical literalism

The Strange Tale of Newton’s Papers

Sarah Dry on the unpublished manuscripts and their author's changing image
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No. 45Spring 2015

No. 45

Spring 2015

Essays

The Ebola Gamble

Ari N. Schulman on how public health authorities put reassurance before protection

Biotech Enhancement and the History of Redemption

Gilbert Meilaender on visions of perfection, theological and technological

The Man Who Thought of Everything

Algis Valiunas on the grand scientific vision and the moral myopia of Linus Pauling
Reviews and Reconsiderations

Competing to Conform

James Poulos reviews Peter Thiel’s Zero to One

Faith, Fact, and False Dichotomies

Austin L. Hughes on the lazy atheism in Jerry Coyne’s new book

The Politics of Digital Shaming

Rita Koganzon on Internet mobs and their outrage at everyday speech

Socially Just Science

Brendan P. Foht on politically correcting science and scientifically correcting politics
Hawthorne Series

Love Conquers All

Jenna Silber Storey and Benjamin Storey read The Blithedale Romance, a novel of utopian hopes and human passions
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No. 46Summer 2015

No. 46

Summer 2015

Special Report

The Threat of Human Cloning

Ethics, Recent Developments, and the Case for Action
A Witherspoon Council Report

Executive Summary

Members of the Witherspoon Council

Preface: Cloning Then and Now

Part One: Scientific and Historical Background

Part Two: The Case Against Cloning-to-Produce-Children

Part Three: The Case Against Cloning-for-Biomedical-Research

Part Four: Cloning Policy in the United States

Part Five: Recommendations

Appendix: State Laws on Human Cloning

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No. 47Fall 2015

No. 47

Fall 2015

Essays

Oil and World Power

Lee Lane on what the oil and gas boom means for America’s geopolitical standing

Miss Marple and the Problem of Modern Identity

Alan Jacobs on being known by one’s neighbors versus being known by the state
Symposium: Pope Francis on the Environment

The Flawed Economics of Laudato Si’

W. David Montgomery on why the encyclical’s moral teaching requires better policy

Is Pope Francis Anti-Modern?

M. Anthony Mills on the encyclical’s critique of “the technocratic paradigm”

Two Approaches to Climate Action

Brendan P. Foht contrasts the encyclical with the recent Ecomodernist Manifesto
Special Section: Human Uniqueness in the Cosmos

Searching for Other Earths

Sara Seager on how — and why — we look for exoplanets

Meaning in a Silent Universe

Marcelo Gleiser on overcoming our sense of cosmic angst

The Fine-Tuning of Nature’s Laws

Luke A. Barnes on what physics tells us about the improbability of life
Remembrance

The Humble Scientist

Chase W. Nelson on the character and career of his late teacher, Austin L. Hughes
Reviews and Reconsiderations

Attention Deficit

Diana Schaub reviews Matthew B. Crawford’s book about an increasingly limited resource

A Reductionist History of Humankind

John Sexton reviews Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens

Einstein’s Masterpiece

Michael W. Begun retraces the path to general relativity on the theory’s 100th anniversary

The X-Files and the Demon-Haunted World

Ari N. Schulman on why we want to believe
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No. 48Winter 2016

No. 48

Winter 2016

Essays

Gene Editing: New Technology, Old Moral Questions

Brendan Foht on using CRISPR to help patients and design our descendants

Attending to Technology

Alan Jacobs offers an aphoristic critique of social media, commentary, and our credulity before algorithms

The Myth of the Placebo Effect

Nick Barrowman on the shaky science underlying a popular idea

Biomedicine and Its Cultural Authority

Joseph E. Davis on the origins of our “health society” and why holistic medicine doesn’t catch on

Hard to Believe

Robert Herritt on how we know what we know, and what to do when experts disagree 

The Enduring Legacy of The Twilight Zone

Brian Murray on Rod Serling’s struggle to turn TV into an art form

Missing the Night Sky

Jacob Hoerger on light pollution, enlightenment, and our sense of finitude
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No. 49Spring/Summer 2016

No. 49

Spring/Summer 2016

Special Section: The Integrity of Science

Saving Science

Daniel Sarewitz on why scientists must come out of the lab and into the real world

Two Cheers for the Retraction Boom

Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus praise the growing scrutiny of scientific publications

A Different Kind of Scientific Revolution

Barbara A. Spellman on the role of technological and demographic changes
Essays

Getting Over ‘Apolloism’

Rand Simberg on why the 1960s missions to the Moon are a bad template for today’s space program

Is There an ‘Unmet Need’ for Family Planning?

Rebecca Oas dismantles the concept behind efforts to increase global contraceptive use

European and American Views on Genetically Modified Foods

Orsolya Ujj on the cultural and philosophical differences that explain contrasting beliefs and policies on GMOs

Fiction in the Age of Screens

Erik P. Hoel on how today’s novelists cope with their HBO anxiety

Scientist, Scholar, Soul

Marc D. Guerra on Margaret Edson’s play Wit and the temptation to hide from matters of ultimate meaning
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No. 50Fall 2016

No. 50

Fall 2016

Special Report

Sexuality and Gender

Findings from the Biological, Psychological, and Social Sciences

Preface

Executive Summary

Introduction

Part One: Sexual Orientation

Part Two: Sexuality, Mental Health Outcomes, and Social Stress

Part Three: Gender Identity

Conclusion

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No. 51Winter 2017

No. 51

Winter 2017

Special Issue

Information, Matter, and Life

Why Information Matters

Luciano Floridi on what philosophy and computer science can contribute to each other

The Limits of Information

Daniel N. Robinson on the gaps between scientific explanation and human experience

The Time of Our Lives

Raymond Tallis on physics, consciousness, and the arrow of information

What Is It Like to Know?

Ari N. Schulman on why we talk in circles about experience

Evolution and the Purposes of Life

Stephen L. Talbott on biology's unasked questions about the goal-directed activities of organisms

The Use and Abuse of ‘Information’ in Biology

Murillo Pagnotta on why there is more to biological development than genes

Mind Games

Charles T. Rubin on the film Ex Machina and breathing life into matter
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No. 52Spring 2017

No. 52

Spring 2017

Essays

Growing Pains

Paul W. Hruz, Lawrence S. Mayer, and Paul R. McHugh on problems with puberty suppression in treating gender dysphoria

Making Technological Miracles

Mark P. Mills defends the value of curiosity-driven science and proposes a new way to think about R&D
The Decent of Man

Darwin Made Me Do It

Michael Ruse on how the process of evolution gave us moral instincts but the theory of evolution undermines moral reasoning

On the Origin of Cooperation

Kevin N. Laland on how culture and nature worked together so we can work together
Reviews and Reconsiderations

Pop Goes the Physics

David Kordahl on what’s left out of Sean Carroll’s The Big Picture

ADD for All

Joseph E. Davis on Big Pharma, overdiagnosis, and the questions unasked about medicalization

Whose Motivation? Which Good?

James K. A. Smith on Christian Smith’s strawman of social science

Toward a More Human Medicine

Aaron Rothstein on doctors, parts, and persons

Grit, Gus, and Glory

George Weigel on restoring the reputation of a test pilot, astronaut, and unsung American hero

On the Shelf

Short reviews of books on the opioid epidemic, the crisis of authority, Silicon Valley, the “new eugenics,” and more
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