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Beyond the State of Exception

What is the American model for crisis governance done well?

Symposium | Winter 2022

Debating the “Public Interest” Online

Responses to “How to Fix Social Media” by Nicholas Carr

How Tech Despair Can Set You Free

Jacques Ellul on escaping the totalizing grip of “technique”

Samuel Matlack

Why Aren’t We Talking About Nuclear Waste?

On kicking the can when it’s full of spent uranium

Dennis W. O’Leary

StarCraft as Statecraft

It’s time for defense strategy to update its favorite gaming metaphors.

Tristan Abbey

Science as Craftwork with Integrity

The study of expertise itself helps us get past a “magic” view of science — and strengthen it against populist critiques.

Harry Collins and M. Anthony Mills

How Tech Reform Diminishes Us

Earnest critics of social media are repeating the dehumanizing mistakes that got us here.

Jeffrey Bilbro

The Twitter Surveillance State

Why did we become a nation of hall monitors?

Taylor Dotson

Fall 2021

How to Fix Social Media

A century ago, new media tech brought fake news, privacy woes, and censorship fights — and American democracy tamed it. It’s time for new legislation that revives the wisdom of that era.

Nicholas Carr

What Is the CDC?

Eleven ways of looking at the troubled agency

Ari Schulman

Manufacturing Consensus

Science needs conformity — but not the kind it has right now.

M. Anthony Mills

Modernity and the Fall

One weird trick to re-enchant the world

Caitrin Keiper

The Invention of Slavery

Lincoln on whether technology makes us free

Diana Schaub

All Pathology, All the Time

What ails a culture that sees illness everywhere?

Joseph E. Davis

Summer 2021

Dance Till We Die

Why Covid security theater failed

Ari Schulman

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

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Sacrifice Is Not a Therapy

Covid doesn’t care how hard we fight it — only about what works.

Leah Libresco Sargeant

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What Is the CDC?

Eleven ways of looking at the troubled agency

Ari Schulman

Spring 2021

The Cop-Out of “Follow the Science”

How feckless Covid leadership turned us against each other

Joseph M. Keegin

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Tribalism Comes for Pandemic Science

Can our polarized country act on provisional knowledge?

Yuval Levin

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What Is the CDC?

Eleven ways of looking at the troubled agency

Ari Schulman

Spring 2021

The Cop-Out of “Follow the Science”

How feckless Covid leadership turned us against each other

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