September 30, 2014
The Invention of the War Machine
Science, technology, and the First World War
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September 30, 2014
The Forgotten Honor of World War I
Responding to those progressive historians who call the war an avoidable mistake — and who hint that we, today, know...
September 30, 2014
My Brain and I
Roger Scruton offers an alternative to the grand ambition of the neurophilosophers.
September 30, 2014
September 30, 2014
A Feeling for Pain
Modern medicine has mastered the elimination of pain to an impressive degree. But as Ronald W. Dworkin, a practicing...
September 30, 2014
Evolution and Ethics, Revisited
The temptation to draw moral lessons from biology is strong today — but it is hardly new. As the historian Gertrude...
September 30, 2014
Liberty and the Environment
Are modern societies and free economies antithetical to the flourishing of the natural world?
September 30, 2014
Remembering Thomas P. Hughes
Whenever I receive inquiries about the effects of technological change on American society, my response is to steer...
June 10, 2014
Fantasy and the Buffered Self
Alan Jacobs on how the genre offers re-enchantment without risk
June 10, 2014
Toward a Conservative Policy on Climate Change
If politicians and policy analysts on the right were to look more carefully at the problem of climate change, they...