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Winter 2021

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The Case Against “STEM”

How blurring the line between science and technology puts both at risk

M. Anthony Mills

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

Disarming Frontline Doctors

In its quest to meet the “gold standard,” academic medicine has put Covid patients at risk.

Devorah Goldman

Introducing “Projects for Renewal”

How to rebuild our culture’s relationship with science and technology

The Editors of The New Atlantis

Recovering Old Age

Covid has laid bare our warehousing attitude toward the elderly. Have we forgotten what aging is for?

Joseph E. Davis and Paul Scherz

Little Data, Big Headlines

On overinterpreting Covid studies for clicks

Aaron Rothstein

A Bioethics of the Strong

Fixated on autonomy, liberal bioethics forgets its mandate to protect the weak.

James Mumford

The Egghead Gap

If America wants to keep China from setting the global course of science, we need a crash program to recruit international talent.

Caleb Watney

Why We Need a Technological Environmentalism

Saving the planet means going high-tech, not back to nature.

Robert Zubrin

Fall 2020

Democracy and the Nuclear Stalemate

How moving beyond the scientism of the nuclear debate could deliver a long-awaited climate breakthrough — and generate fresh ideas for a more productive politics.

Taylor Dotson and Michael Bouchey

Saving Ourselves

Real love as rebellion in TV’s Brave New World

Tara Isabella Burton

The End of History and the Fast Man

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

Adam J. White

Science as Scorekeeping

On Covid-19, America’s political leaders need to stop acting like spectators and get in the game.

Brendan Foht

Go West, Old Man

Do we want decline?

John Sexton

How We Reason About Covid Tradeoffs

Our pandemic decisions should be about defending the dignity of suffering people, not choosing between lives and money.

Ben Peterson

Our aim is a culture in which science and technology work for, not on, human beings.

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Visiting Grandparents Is Essential

The triumph of the economic in the vaccine priority debate

Brandon McGinley

January 7, 2021

The New Strain: How Bad Is It?

A Q&A for the frazzled — and a case for action

Brendan Foht and Ari Schulman

Winter 2021

Disarming Frontline Doctors

In its quest to meet the “gold standard,” academic medicine has put Covid patients at risk.

Devorah Goldman

Winter 2021

Little Data, Big Headlines

On overinterpreting Covid studies for clicks

Aaron Rothstein

January 7, 2021

The New Strain: How Bad Is It?

A Q&A for the frazzled — and a case for action

Brendan Foht and Ari Schulman

Winter 2021

Disarming Frontline Doctors

In its quest to meet the “gold standard,” academic medicine has put Covid patients at risk.

Devorah Goldman

Winter 2021

Little Data, Big Headlines

On overinterpreting Covid studies for clicks

Aaron Rothstein

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