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Spring 2021

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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 prophecies of doom, should spur America to become a global leader.

Seaver Wang

Welcoming Our New Robot Overlords

How warnings of AI doom gave way to primal fear of primates posting

Adam Elkus

Chasing the Sun

The extraordinary story of two Pacific voyages of discovery a thousand years apart

Nathan Beacom

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 Cop-Out of “Follow the Science”

How feckless Covid leadership turned us against each other

Joseph M. Keegin

Math and Modernity

How Descartes’s geometry quietly launched a revolution

David Guaspari

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

Why We Can’t Leave Nature Alone

We shouldn’t be so bashful about tinkering with the environment to save it.

Ted Nordhaus

Winter 2021

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

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

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A Victory for Scientific Pragmatism

In an emergency, the “gold” standard of evidence may not be the wise one.

Arturo Casadevall, Michael J. Joyner, Nigel Paneth

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 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

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