Welcoming Our New Robot Overlords How warnings of AI doom gave way to primal fear of primates posting Adam Elkus
The Cop-Out of “Follow the Science” How feckless Covid leadership turned us against each other Joseph M. Keegin
Chasing the Sun The extraordinary story of two Pacific voyages of discovery a thousand years apart Nathan Beacom
Patents and the Common Good A delicate balance between innovation and the public interest is at risk. Charles Duan
You Are Not Galileo Are Anthony Fauci and Plandemic cranks both like the persecuted astronomer? It’s time to retire this trope. Tess Doezema
The Case Against the Case Against Space If we had to solve the human condition before we tried anything new, we’d never try anything new. Charles T. Rubin
The Danger of Fact-ist Politics Building a politics of connection where fanatical certainty fails Taylor Dotson
Is Climate Change a Foreign Policy Issue? Opportunity now, not future doom, should spur America to become a global leader Seaver Wang
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
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
January 8, 2021 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
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
Fall 2019 After Climate Despair The hope for a global conversion to austerity has failed to stop climate change. What comes next? Matt Frost
Winter/Spring 2013 Do Elephants Have Souls? On the evidence for non-human intelligence, awareness, and emotion Caitrin Keiper
Summer 2010 How Can I Possibly Be Free? Why the neuroscientific case against free will is wrong Raymond Tallis
