Number 18 ~ Fall 2007
Essays
Achieving Energy Victory
Robert Zubrin on how to win the war on terror by breaking free of oil
Ghosts in the Evolutionary Machinery
Steve Talbott on digital organisms and disembodied science
A Half-Century in Space
The Conquest of Space and the Stature of Man
Hannah Arendt on scientists, common sense, and man’s limitations
Nature, Man, and Common Sense
Patrick J. Deneen
Science and Totalitarianism
Rita Koganzon
Thumos in Space
Charles T. Rubin
Chariots in the Sky
Stephen Bertman
Our Proud Human Future
Peter Augustine Lawler
Reviews and Reconsiderations
Launching the Space Age
James E. Oberg on the dramatic story of Sputnik
The New Pioneers
Rand Simberg on the burgeoning private space industry
The Evangelical Ecologist
S.M. Hutchens on E.O. Wilson’s Earth-piety
The Painless Peace of Twilight Sleep
Cheryl Miller on an overlooked Edith Wharton gem
State of the Art
Shot in the Dark
Autism and the Vaccines Controversy
Caitrin Nicol
Science Warrior
Hillary Clinton Leaves the Facts Behind
Yuval Levin
Unclassifiable
Commerce, Community, and Crime on Craigslist
Christine Rosen
Card’s Game
The Unfortunate Decline of Orson Scott Card
Peter Suderman
