September 8, 2015
Captain Kirk and the Art of Rule
On the political philosophy of the original Star Trek: Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy.
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April 23, 2015
First Thoughts on Germline Engineering
Brendan P. Foht on the first genetic modification of human embryos
November 4, 2014
In Defense of Daring
Last Friday, a spacecraft owned by Richard Branson’s private space-tourism company Virgin Galactic broke up in flight...
October 19, 2014
A Not-So-Distant Mirror
I have been thinking quite a bit about a book I read this summer, Roy Porter’s magisterial social history of...
October 19, 2014
Edupunk’d
In his 1998 book Avatars of the Word, James O’Donnell, a classical scholar and academic administrator, could already...
October 19, 2014
The Online State of Nature
Sometimes our behavior in the “real world” can illuminate the puzzles of online experience. Consider this...
December 12, 2013
Reporting Mass Shootings and Suicides
Dear Ms. Sullivan, The news media have long received scrutiny for their possible role in encouraging mass shootings and...
December 12, 2013
Scientism and the Integrity of the Humanities
Austin L. Hughes responds to Steven Pinker’s attempt to put science in charge of the humanities.
September 25, 2013
Rethinking Innovation
Recently I read, and very much enjoyed, Steven Johnson’s new book Where Good Ideas Come From. Johnson’s primary...
January 18, 2013
How to Think About Our Steroid Supermen
With Lance Armstrong’s tearful televised confession and Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens denied election to the Baseball...