The New Atlantis - A Journal of Technology & Society

While Bioethics Fiddles

As baby manufacturing draws near, academic ethicists play frivolous games

by Brendan P. Foht

Will Climate Change the Courts?

In suing for “climate justice,” the “children’s climate crusade” aims to subvert the democratic process.

by David A. Murray

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

Moon Direct

A purpose-driven plan to open the lunar frontier

by Robert Zubrin

The Return of the Space Visionaries

by Rand Simberg

How space tycoons are bringing back the dream of truly settling the “high frontier” — and how policy can catch up

Lost on Mars

by Micah Meadowcroft

Why space colonization will disappoint you

Jon Ross; Rick Guidice; Joshua Lott / Getty

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

Noah Berger/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Algorithmic Injustice

Don’t blame the algorithm — as long as there are racial disparities in the justice system, sentencing software can never be entirely fair

by Tafari Mbadiwe

For the Love of Mars

Why settling the Red Planet can lift us from our antihuman malaise

by James Poulos

Martin Hargreaves

Shakespeare’s Worlds of Science

New scholarship reveals a Bard brooding over the science of his day. What can we learn from his vision of cosmic upheaval?

by Natalie Elliot

Frankenstein at 200

Kirsten A. Hall

The Idea Incarnate

How Dr. Frankenstein’s thoughts ran away from him

Brendan P. Foht

Responsible Frankensteins?

The trouble with the idea that we can play God, but ethically

David M. Buisán (JellyLondon.com)

Quantum Poetics

Why physics can’t get rid of metaphor

by Samuel Matlack

Make Physics Real Again

by David Guaspari

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

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Why Data Is Never Raw

by Nick Barrowman

On the seductive myth of information free of human judgment

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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 Ian Marcus Corbin

On recognizing inhumane arrangements for what they are

Martin Dimitrov via iStockphoto

Jonas Salk, the People’s Scientist

by Algis Valiunas

The man who vanquished polio won the public’s love but never the respect of his peers.

The University the King Built

by Waleed Al-Shobakky

A Saudi experiment in education aims to solve the West’s science malaise — and become a global research powerhouse.

Aditya Prabaswara (CC)

Disenchantment, Actually

by Doug Sikkema

Modern disenchantment may be a myth, but it is still the water in which we swim.

by David Bentley Hart

Daniel Dennett’s latest book marks five decades of majestic failure to explain consciousness.

Peter Yang / AUGUST

Must Science Be Useful?

Letters from scientists and policy experts on our widely read article “Saving Science,” with a response from Daniel Sarewitz.

Morgan Ray Schweitzer

Till Tomorrow

by Adam Roberts

Three recent books go a long way toward humanizing the abstract “time” of physicists.

by Merav Ceren

Do drones and pinpoint strikes make war more just, or merely more efficient? Israeli innovation provides a test case.

Israel Defense Forces

ADD for All

by Joseph E. Davis

Why do we have an “epidemic” of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder? The common explanations miss the underlying reasons our society is disposed to medicalize ADHD.