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A More Political Science

What is science’s rightful place? How should we govern technology?

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Essay | Winter 2021

Winter 2021

  • Algis Valiunas

A Scientist’s Mind, A Poet’s Soul

On the unified cosmic vision of Alexander von Humboldt, the nineteenth century’s great naturalist-adventurer

Algis Valiunas

Essay | Winter 2021

Winter 2021

  • Alan Jacobs

From Tech Critique to Ways of Living

Neil Postman was right. So what?

Alan Jacobs

Online Exclusive | June 18, 2020

June 18, 2020

  • Taylor Dotson

Radiation Politics in a Pandemic

Why is Covid-19 science making us more partisan?

From: The Coronavirus Pandemic

Taylor Dotson

Online Exclusive | July 6, 2020

July 6, 2020

  • Aaron Sibarium

Covid Denialists and the Fight over Liberalism

Why the swamp and its drainers were both blind to the threat

From: The Coronavirus Pandemic

Aaron Sibarium

Review | Fall 2020

Fall 2020

  • Adam J. White

The End of History and the Fast Man

Bidding farewell to America’s car culture — and its democratic virtues

Adam J. White

Symposium

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring at Fifty

The Truth About DDT and Silent Spring
Reading Rachel Carson

Collection | Spring 2008

Spring 2008

Montesquieu and the Motives for Science

The Motives That Ought to Encourage Us to the Sciences
Montesquieu’s Popular Science

Special Series

Hawthorne: Science, Progress, and Human Nature

Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Spirit of Science
Wasting the Water of Life
Artful by Nature
From Hearth-Fires to Hell-Fires
The Last Temptation of Science
A Far Other Butterfly
The Possibility of Progress
Love Conquers All
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Online Exclusive | June 5, 2020

June 5, 2020

  • Yuval Levin

Tribalism Comes for Pandemic Science

Can our polarized country act on provisional knowledge?

From: The Coronavirus Pandemic

Yuval Levin

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Essay | Fall 2019

Fall 2019

  • Zach Graves
  • M. Anthony Mills

Reviving Expertise in a Populist Age

Wary of technocracy, a feckless Congress defers to executive bureaucrats.

Zach Graves and M. Anthony Mills

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