The New Atlantis - A Journal of Technology & Society

After Climate Despair

The dream of a global conversion to austerity has failed to stop climate change. Energy abundance is our best hope for living well with warming — and reversing it.

by Matt Frost

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The New Kinship Engineering

Three-parent babies are being created not to prevent disease but to manufacture genetic relationships.

by Brendan P. Foht

Woody Trend Studio

First, Take No Stand

On assisted suicide, the medical profession ducks behind “neutrality.”

by Aaron Kheriaty

Why Science Can’t Break the GMO Stalemate

The debate won’t be settled technocratically
because it’s about technocracy itself.

by Tess Doezema

Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty

After Technopoly

Technocratic solutionism is dying. To replace it, we must learn again the creation and reception of myth.

by Alan Jacobs

The Ruin of the Digital Town Square

Joe Wilson

L. M. Sacasas

The Inescapable Town Square

Naomi Schaefer Riley

Preserving Real-Life Childhood

Shoshana Weissmann

How Not to Regulate Social Media

Nolen Gertz

The Four Facebooks

Ashley May

Do You Know Who Your ‘Friends’ Are?

Micah Meadowcroft

The Distance Between Us

Andy Smarick

The Emergent Order of Twitter

James Poulos

Imagine All the People

Caitrin Keiper

Making Friends of Trolls

While Bioethics Fiddles

As baby manufacturing draws near, academic ethicists play frivolous games

by Brendan P. Foht

How Tech Utopia Fostered Tyranny

Authoritarians’ love for digital technology is no fluke — it’s a product of Silicon Valley’s “smart” paternalism

by Jon Askonas

Google.gov

Amid growing calls to break up Google, are we missing a quiet alignment between “smart” government and the universal information engine?

by Adam J. White

Enlightenment Later

by Kent Anhari

Will reason survive rationalism?

by Ian Marcus Corbin

How Moleskine sells durability to ephemeral selves

David Joyce via Flickr (CC)

Einstein in Athens

by Benjamin Liebeskind

Modern science is unwittingly echoing Aristotle — and still has much to learn from him.

by Jon Askonas

How military drone technology is quietly creeping into policing, business, and everyday life

U.S. Air Force

In Search of Lost Time on YouTube

by Laurence Scott

How the platform takes us to places where we ache to go again

Getty

NASA’s Next 50 Years

by Robert Zubrin

A half-century after Apollo, the agency risks irrelevance. It’s time for a real — and different — mission.

Getty

Can Chess Survive Artificial Intelligence?

by Yoni Wilkenfeld

Computers are taking the error out of human chess — and the adventure.

DeepMind

Make Physics Real Again

by David Guaspari

Why have so many physicists shrugged off the paradoxes of quantum mechanics?

Shutterstock

Modernity’s Spell

by Clare Coffey

Why debunking mesmerism only made it stronger

Wikimedia

The Tech Backlash We Really Need

by L. M. Sacasas

Silicon Valley will only be strengthened by its present scandals unless we ask deeper questions.

by P. W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking

How ISIS liked, shared, and posted its way to power

Wikimedia

On the Monster Beat

by Clare Coffey

Why the civic needs the weird

by Kirsten A. Hall

On Robinson Crusoe, Lost, and why we keep returning to mysterious islands where science blurs with the supernatural

Derik Hobbs

Audio article

Do Elephants Have Souls?

Listen to the classic 2013 essay by Caitrin Keiper.

Shutterstock; Royyan Wijaya (CC)

Tell Him Something Pretty

by Robert Herritt

On the lowly view of reason in Deadwood

HBO

Our Uneasy Tranquility

by Heather Zeiger

American use of anti-anxiety pills has skyrocketed. Should we be worried?

Getty

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The Most Dangerous Possible German

by Algis Valiunas

On the ambiguous legacy of Werner Heisenberg, quantum genius and would-be inventor of the Nazi A-bomb

David M. Buisán

Steven Weinberg Glimpses the Promised Land

by David Kordahl

The sage of physics takes on politics and philosophy — and dreams of science’s last day

Getty

Robotic Souls

by Charles T. Rubin

Will AI contain multitudes? Do we?

NurPhoto via Getty

Netflix and Nil

by James Poulos

Why being online makes us nihilists

Why Do We Think We Are Disenchanted?

Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm, Doug Sikkema, and John Wilson debate The Myth of Disenchantment

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