August 26, 2025
AI Ethics Is Simpler Than You Think
Recently in Paris, Vice President J. D. Vance warned that “excessive regulation in the AI sector could kill a...
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August 26, 2025
The Party of Science Is Over
Scientific knowledge achieved through years of research, and accepted as true by experts, is rejected by President...
August 26, 2025
An Ozempic in Every Lunch Box
As a child, Marcy was chubby. Her mom was struggling with her weight, too, but she took drugs to keep it down. Fen-phen...
August 26, 2025
The AI Genetics Revolution Is Coming
A curious feature of the last few years of anxieties about AI has been how they favor some dystopian fears over others....
August 26, 2025
Why We Are Better Off Than a Century Ago
I began this series of articles by describing a destination wedding that made me think of Thomas Jefferson. As I...
August 26, 2025
Two Hundred Years to Flatten the Curve
The first time people in New Orleans truly understood their refrigerators was the summer of 2005, after Hurricane...
August 26, 2025
What Comes After Gender Affirmation?
One day in the summer of 2023, when Irene’s sixteen-year-old daughter had come home so drunk she was slurring her...
May 20, 2025
The Doctor as Priest
The instinct for self-preservation, typically buried under the distractions of daily life, surfaces when pondering all...
May 20, 2025
The Real City of the Future
There is a profound paradox in great cities today. We are accustomed to thinking of our cities as engines of creation,...
May 20, 2025
What’s the Difference Between Hearing Aids and Puberty Blockers?
Nature makes mistakes. It endows us with degenerative diseases, missing limbs, faulty senses, warped spines, cleft...