Redpilling and the Regime Claiming to be a daring outsider who speaks forbidden truths has become a standard trope. Can it still threaten the establishment? Geoff Shullenberger
Just Say No to Human–Monkey Chimeras The biotech industry wants to set its own rules on a disturbing new practice. This time, we can’t trust them to act responsibly. Brendan Foht
Is It Time for a U.S. Department of Science? Messy pluralism is actually what makes American research great. M. Anthony Mills
The Demon of Bureaucratic Chaos Doing a lot without getting much done at the Department of Energy Tristan Abbey
Anthropology as Atonement Why Claude Lévi-Strauss celebrated every culture but his own Algis Valiunas
The Danger of Fact-ist Politics Building a politics of connection where fanatical certainty fails Taylor Dotson
You Are Not Galileo Are Anthony Fauci and Plandemic cranks both like the persecuted astronomer? It’s time to retire this trope. Tess Doezema
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
The Cop-Out of “Follow the Science” How feckless Covid leadership turned us against each other Joseph M. Keegin
Is Climate Change a Foreign Policy Issue? Opportunity now, not prophecies of doom, should spur America to become a global leader. Seaver Wang
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
Disarming Frontline Doctors In its quest to meet the “gold standard,” academic medicine has put Covid patients at risk. Devorah Goldman
A Bioethics of the Strong Fixated on autonomy, liberal bioethics forgets its mandate to protect the weak. James Mumford
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
March 25, 2021 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
June 5, 2020 Tribalism Comes for Pandemic Science Can our polarized country act on provisional knowledge? Yuval Levin
Fall 2020 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
January 8, 2021 Visiting Grandparents Is Essential The triumph of the economic in the vaccine priority debate Brandon McGinley
June 5, 2020 Tribalism Comes for Pandemic Science Can our polarized country act on provisional knowledge? Yuval Levin
Fall 2020 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
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
