January 17, 2014
Tocqueville on Technology
Critics say that Alexis de Tocqueville failed to notice the importance of technology in young America. But Benjamin...
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December 17, 2013
Brave New World, Plato’s Republic, and Our Scientific Regime
Matthew J. Franck compares the utopian visions of Huxley and Plato
September 4, 2013
Philanthropy’s Original Sin
William A. Schambra on U.S. foundations’ legacy of support for eugenics, and the charitable alternative to scientific...
September 4, 2013
Science and Non-Science in Liberal Education
On the confidence of scientists and the need for philosophy
September 4, 2013
The Secular Religions of Progress
Economists often try to present their discipline as truly scientific — a value-neutral tool for predicting policy...
September 4, 2013
The Good Doctor
A student of the late Dr. Edmund Pellegrino, a former chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics and one of the...
September 4, 2013
The Golem and the Limits of Artifice
Charles T. Rubin on what the Jewish legend can (and cannot) teach us about bioethics.
September 4, 2013
Disenchantment and Its Discontents
Why Catholics need not choose between science and wonder.
September 4, 2013
Redeeming Technologies
Timothy Dalrymple on how Evangelicals embrace technological innovation.
September 4, 2013
The Trouble with the New “Islamic Science”
Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad on trying to read the Koran like a science textbook.