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No. 55Spring 2018

No. 55

Spring 2018

Essays

Google.gov

Adam J. White on whether growing calls to break up Google distract from a quiet alignment between “smart” government and the universal information engine

The Tech Backlash We Really Need

L. M. Sacasas on why Silicon Valley will only be strengthened by its present scandals unless we ask deeper questions

For the Love of Mars

James Poulos on why settling the Red Planet would lift us from our antihuman malaise

Richard Feynman and the Pleasure Principle

Algis Valiunas on how a cerebral hedonist became a scientific hero
Stories of Faith & Science

Faith and the Fear of Death

Jonathan Jong on confronting our mortality from the lab and the altar

Encounter in the Vale

Jonathan Mosedale recounts a story of hiking, frailty, and glimpsing the divine
Reviews and Reconsiderations

Did Thomas Kuhn Kill Truth?

David Kordahl reviews filmmaker Errol Morris’s new book on whether the philosopher of science threw an ashtray at his head

The Joy of Cryptozoology

Clare Coffey on the Jersey Devil and the psychology of conspiracy theories
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No. 56Summer/Fall 2018

No. 56

Summer/Fall 2018

Correspondence

Why Do We Think We Are Disenchanted?

Debating The Myth of Disenchantment by Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm
The Space Renaissance

Moon Direct

Robert Zubrin offers a purpose-driven plan to open the lunar frontier

The Return of the Space Visionaries

Rand Simberg on how space tycoons are bringing back the dream of truly settling the “high frontier” — and how policy can catch up

Lost on Mars

Micah Meadowcroft on why space colonization will disappoint you
Essays

How Facebook Deforms Us

L. M. Sacasas on the too-savvy idea that strengthening our social fabric can fix the platform that’s destroying it

What Happened to Bioethics?

Yuval Levin on why biomedical research doesn’t roil national politics anymore — and the thin hope offered by the last time it did

Jonas Salk, the People’s Scientist

Algis Valiunas on how the man who vanquished polio won the public’s love but never the respect of his peers

Why Data Is Never Raw

Nick Barrowman on the seductive myth of information free of human judgment

Time to Log Off

Ian Marcus Corbin on being online and recognizing inhumane arrangements for what they are
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No. 57Winter 2019

No. 57

Winter 2019

Essays

How Tech Utopia Fostered Tyranny

Jon Askonas argues that authoritarians’ love for digital technology is no fluke — it’s a product of Silicon Valley’s “smart” paternalism

Will Climate Change the Courts?

David A. Murray on the “children’s climate crusade” and the coming global campaign to transform the courts

While Bioethics Fiddles

Brendan P. Foht on the frivolous games academic ethicists play while baby manufacturing draws near

The Most Dangerous Possible German

Algis Valiunas on the ambiguous legacy of Werner Heisenberg, quantum genius and would-be inventor of the Nazi A-bomb

Robotic Souls

Charles T. Rubin asks what debates over machine consciousness mean for how we regard ourselves

Jihadi Digital Natives

P. W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking on how ISIS liked and posted its way to power
Reviews and Reconsiderations

Netflix and Nil

James Poulos on why being online turns us into nihilists

Make Physics Real Again

David Guaspari on why so many physicists have shrugged off the paradoxes of quantum mechanics

Modernity’s Spell

Clare Coffey on why debunking mesmerism only made it stronger

Steven Weinberg Glimpses the Promised Land

David Kordahl on how the sage of physics quarrels with politics and philosophy — and dreams of science’s last day
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No. 58Spring 2019

No. 58

Spring 2019

Essays

After Technopoly

Alan Jacobs on why getting beyond rationalism requires the return of myth

Our Uneasy Tranquility

Heather Zeiger asks whether the rising use of anti-anxiety pills should have us worried

Why Science Can’t Break the GMO Stalemate

Tess Doezema argues that studies won’t settle a debate about technocracy itself

Can Chess Survive Artificial Intelligence?

Yoni Wilkenfeld on how computers take the error out of human chess — and the adventure
The Ruin of the Digital Town Square

The Inescapable Town Square

L. M. Sacasas on how social media combines the worst parts of past eras of communication

Preserving Real-Life Childhood

Naomi Schaefer Riley on why decency online requires raising kids who know life offline

How Not to Regulate Social Media

Shoshana Weissmann on proposed privacy and bot laws that would do more harm than good

The Four Facebooks

Nolen Gertz on misinformation, manipulation, dependency, and distraction

Do You Know Who Your ‘Friends’ Are?

Ashley May on why treating others well online requires defining our relationships

The Distance Between Us

Micah Meadowcroft on why we act badly when we don’t speak face-to-face

The Emergent Order of Twitter

Andy Smarick on why the platform should be fixed from the bottom up, not the top down

Imagine All the People

James Poulos on how the fantasies of the TV era created the disaster of social media

Making Friends of Trolls

Caitrin Keiper on finding familiar faces behind the black mirror
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No. 59Summer 2019

No. 59

Summer 2019

Essays

The New Kinship Engineering

Brendan P. Foht on why three-parent babies are being created not to prevent disease but to manufacture genetic relationships

In Search of Lost Time on YouTube

Laurence Scott on how the platform takes us to places where we ache to go again

First, Take No Stand

Aaron Kheriaty shows how on assisted suicide, the medical profession ducks behind “neutrality”

Crusoe at the Crossroads

Kirsten A. Hall on Robinson Crusoe, Lost, and why we keep returning to mysterious islands where science blurs with the supernatural

Analog Anchors for the Online Adrift

Ian Marcus Corbin on how Moleskine sells durability to ephemeral selves

NASA’s Next 50 Years

Robert Zubrin argues that a half-century after Apollo, it’s time for a real, and different, mission for our space agency
Reviews and Reconsiderations

Tell Him Something Pretty

Robert Herritt on Deadwood's lowly view of reason

Einstein in Athens

Benjamin Liebeskind on how modern physics is unwittingly echoing Aristotle, and still has much to learn from him

All Activities Monitored

Jon Askonas on how military drone surveillance is quietly creeping into policing, business, and everyday life
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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

Editor’s Note

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

Editor’s Note

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. 200

Fall 2003 - Winter 2030

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No. 1Spring 2003

No. 1

Spring 2003

Editorial

The New Politics of Technology

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
Interview

Is Cyberspace Secure?

An interview with “cybersecurity czar” Howard A. Schmidt
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.
Looking Ahead

Biotechnology by the Numbers

Looking Back

The Double Helix at Fifty

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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.
Looking Ahead

Learning from Columbia

Looking Back

Reflections on the Tiniest Things

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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.
Looking Ahead

China Takes Off

Looking Back

The Wright Stuff

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No. 4Winter 2004

No. 4

Winter 2004

Biotechnology and the Good Life

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 Spirit of Discovery

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.
Looking Ahead

Reviewing American Intelligence

Looking Back

John Deere and America’s Character

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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.
Looking Ahead

The Return of the Space Debate

Looking Back

25 Years in the Sausage Factory

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