No. 1Spring 2003
No. 1
Spring 2003
Essays
Ageless Bodies, Happy Souls
Leon R. Kass on biotechnology and the pursuit of perfection
Military Technology and American Culture
Victor Davis Hanson on our character, our weapons, and our role in the world
Liberty, Privacy, and DNA Databases
Christine Rosen on the uses and dangers of genetic fingerprints
The Paradox of Conservative Bioethics
Yuval Levin on taboos, democracy, and the politics of biology
Bioethics and the Character of Human Life
Gilbert Meilaender on mortality, freedom, suffering, and the generations
The Future of Medical Technology
Scott Gottlieb on how the marriage of biology and silicon is transforming medicine
Artificial Intelligence and Human Nature
Charles T. Rubin on the project to make human beings extinct
The Rise and Fall of Sociobiology
Peter A. Lawler on the age’s three great illusions about human nature
State of the Art
Fertility Gone Mad
Pregnancy After Menopause, IVF Birth defects, & More
Bill Gates, the Prince
The Muddled Microsoft Case and Stone-Age Antitrust Laws
Mapping the Mind
Our New Techniques for Scanning the Psyche
HapMap—Revolution or Hype?
The Controversy Surrounding the Next Gene-Mapping Project
Satellites at Risk
The Next Homeland Security Challenge May Be in Space
Are We Ready for Terror?
The Latest Hart-Rudman Report and What It Missed
Oh, Behave!
Britain’s Nuffield Council Weighs in on Behavioral Genetics
Home is Where the Robot is
Vacuum Cleaners, Security Guards, and Old-Age Companions
Chinese Bioethics?
“Voluntary” Eugenics and the Prospects for Reform
The Dust Bites Another One
From Michael Crichton’s Prey to the Department of Nanotechnology
The Animal in Us
The Latest Advances in Xenotransplantation
‘Lift Your Eyes to the Heavens’
President Bush’s remarks on the loss of the space shuttle Columbia
Notes & Briefs
Nuclear Fusion, Censoring Science, Hyper-Healthcare, etc.
No. 2Summer 2003
No. 2
Summer 2003
Essays
Of Embryos and Empire
Eric Cohen on what the embryo debate can teach us about American civilization
The Nanotechnology Revolution
Adam Keiper on the science and politics of manipulating the very small
The New Face of War
David Skinner on whether new technologies make war more tolerable and more just
War and Techne
Gilbert Meilaender on the timeless truths of war
Why Conservatives Care About Biotechnology
Adam Wolfson on conservatives, biotechnology, and the American project
Human Nature is Here to Stay
Larry Arnhart on why biotechnology will not change our bodies, brains, and desires
Eugenics—Sacred and Profane
Christine Rosen on Orthodox matchmakers, IVF clinics, and genetic testing
State of the Art
Mercy and Drugs in Africa
Inside the Bush Administration’s New AIDS Policy
My Mother, the Embryo
IVF's Latest: She-Males, Fetal Eggs, and Children of the Unborn
Year of the Red Planet
An International Wave of Interplanetary Exploration
Clueless
Moral Silliness from Some Spokesmen of Science
Navel-Gazing
Bioethics and the Unbearable Whiteness of Being
Porn, Privacy, and Kids
Congressional Attempts to Make the Internet Child-Friendly
Carried Away with Convergence
The Merging of Nanotech, Biotech, Infotech, and Brain Sciences
Boys Will Be Boys
The Science of the Y Chromosome
Crackdown!
Stepping Up the Fight Against Music Piracy
Stopping Spam
As the Spam Problem Worsens, Congress Seeks a Remedy
Technology: The Great Enabler?
How Jayson Blair Conned the New York Times
‘Something History Will Not Forgive’
Excerpts from Tony Blair’s Speech to Congress, July 18, 2003
Notes & Briefs
Cloned Mules, Forgetful Mice, Camera Phones, etc.
No. 3Fall 2003
No. 3
Fall 2003
Essays
A New Vision for NASA
Adam Keiper on the trouble with NASA and the moral case for space exploration
Bioethics in Wartime
Eric Cohen on biology and the good life—in peace and in war
A Conversation with Nature
Steve Talbott on understanding our relationship with the natural world
From Biology to Biography
William Hurlbut on evolution and the ascent of the human person
Why Not Artificial Wombs?
Christine Rosen on the meaning of being born, not incubated
Does Digital Politics Still Matter?
Robert Atkinson and Shane Ham on the battles over information technology
The Politics of the WHO
Steven Menashi on the follies of the World Health Organization
State of the Art
‘Tis the Season?
Women off the Cycle, Men on the Pill
Caught in the Act
Tracking Cheating Hearts in the Cyber-Age
Bank on It
Britain Constructs a Universal Genetic Database
Out of Their Right Mind
Conservatism is Crazy, but Psychiatry is Here to Help
Edward Teller, RIP
The Controversial Life of the Father of the H-Bomb
Neil Postman, RIP
Culture, Technology, and the Modern Soul
The Science Journal Crisis
Disappearing Articles, Skyrocketing Costs, and Open Access
Paper and Pixel
The Web Takes Note of Books, Reference Books Discover the Web
Was Blind, But Now I See
Stem Cells, Genetics, and Bionics in the Quest for Sight
The Future of Satellites
New Problems and New Players in the Satellite Game
‘We’re the Dreamers’
Senators Hear Opposing Views on Piracy from Two Rappers
Notes & Briefs
Spammer Justice, Cloned Food, Solar Flares, etc.
No. 4Winter 2004
No. 4
Winter 2004
Science and Self-Government
Wilfred M. McClay on science and self-government
A More Child-Like Science
Steve Talbott on “better children”
Man or Machine?
Charles T. Rubin on “superior performance”
Methuselah and Us
Diana Schaub on “ageless bodies”
Restless Souls
Peter A. Lawler on “happy souls”
Essays
Romance in the Information Age
Christine Rosen on how technology is changing courtship
Imagining the Future
Yuval Levin on innovations, generations, and the biotechnology debates
The Kyoto Protocol: A Post-Mortem
S. Fred Singer on the politics of global climate change
The Scientist and the Poet
Paul A. Cantor on the surprising wrinkles in an age-old rivalry
The Right Plan
Adam Keiper on the plan and its critics
The Virtual Astronaut
Robert Park on the virtual astronaut
The Human Explorer
Robert Zubrin on the human explorer
State of the Art
The Age of Cloning
Breakthrough in South Korea, Stalemate in the Senate
Do Embryos Vote?
Stem Cell Politics in an Election Year
The Nanotech Schism
High-Tech Pants or Molecular Revolution?
Online Democracy
Why the Era of E-Voting Will Have to Wait
Life is Just a Game
The Rise of Video Games in American Culture
The Ideological Environmentalist
Challenging the Orthodoxy of “Green” Science
Click Twice and Call Me in the Morning
The Growing Underground Market in Prescription Drugs
History Repeating?
The Peculiar Comeback of Eugenics
Gatekeepers of Science
Peer Review Controversies at Home and Abroad
Power-Hungry China
The International Consequences of China’s Quest for Energy
‘The Seams that Hold Us Back’
Bill Gates on Hardware, Software, and the Next Step in Computing
Notes & Briefs
Face Transplants, Text-Message Weddings, Aerogel, etc.
No. 5Spring 2004
No. 5
Spring 2004
Essays
Energy Dreams and Energy Realities
Stephanie Cohen on liberals, conservatives, and the energy debate
The Democratization of Beauty
Christine Rosen on cosmetic surgery and American culture
The Dilemmas of German Bioethics
Eric Brown on the taboos of the Nazi past and the future of human dignity
The Legacy of Nazi Medicine
Naomi Schaefer on a powerful new exhibit at the U.S. Holocaust Museum
Technology and the Constitution
O. Carter Snead on how new technologies affect judicial interpretation
Nuclear 1914: The Next Big Worry
Henry Sokolski on the problem of nuclear proliferation in the age of terrorism
Getting Serious About IVF
Adam Wolfson on the new report from the President’s Council on Bioethics
Memory and the Movies
James Bowman on remembering and forgetting through the eyes of Hollywood
State of the Art
Dot-Com Terrorism
How Radical Islam Uses the Internet to Fight the West
Campaigning for Stem Cells
Research Advocates Launch a New Offensive for Funding
Daniel J. Boorstin, RIP
Historian, Critic, and American Man of Books
Gaga Over Google
More than a Search Engine, Less than a Mind
Life from Scratch
Promise, Peril, and Pathogens: Breakthroughs in Synthetic Biology
Science Goes Hollywood
Selective Outrage over the Latest Movie Inaccuracies
Red Planet, Wet Planet
Developments in the Search for Life on Mars
Miles Still to Go
DARPA and the Great Robot Race
The Science of Human Potential
Public Dialogue about Behavioral Genetics
One of Us
The Anatomy of Acceptance
‘The Course We Must Maintain’
Vice President Cheney on Proliferation and Cooperation
Notes & Briefs
Stamping Out Spam, Euthanasia News, Books Online, etc.
No. 6Summer 2004
No. 6
Summer 2004
Essays
The Human Face of Alzheimer’s
Colleen Carroll Campbell on the medical, ethical, and personal aspects of dementia
Stem Cells and the Reagan Legacy
Gilbert Meilaender on hubris and limits in the embryo research debate
Our Cell Phones, Ourselves
Christine Rosen on the consequences of ignoring the world around us
The Path Not Taken
Rand Simberg on the myths of the old space age and what comes next
Our Asterisked Heroes
Douglas Kern on human excellence in the age of performance-enhancing drugs
Film and TV in Anxious Times
Thomas S. Hibbs on fantasy film, reality TV, and American life after 9/11
State of the Art
The Assassin’s Mace
China’s Growing Military Might
The Stem Cell Race
John Kerry and the Democrats Search for an Issue
America at 10 M.P.H.
The Slow But Steady Rise of Segway
The Big Change
The End of Menopause and Its Meaning
It’s Getting Easier Being Green
Permaculture Goes Mainstream
Francis Crick, RIP
The Man, the Mind, and the Molecule
Doping for Seconds
The Shadow of Drugs on American Athletics
‘Higher Standards’
Eliot Spitzer on the Pharmaceutical Industry
Notes & Briefs
Nano News, Robot Nurses, Racing Sperm, etc.
No. 7Fall 2004 - Winter 2005
No. 7
Fall 2004 - Winter 2005
Essays
Science and Congress
Adam Keiper on science advice and the legacy of the Office of Technology Assessment
The Age of Egocasting
Christine Rosen on TiVo, iPod, and technologies of fetish
Human Growth Hormone and the Measure of Man
Dov Fox on height enhancement and the new tyranny of the normal
Acorns and Embryos
Robert P. George and Patrick Lee on moral standing and bad metaphors
The Tragedy of Equality
Eric Cohen on the uses of reason, the absurdity of disease, and the quest for justice
Human Frailty and Human Dignity
Leon R. Kass responds to Eric Cohen’s essay
The Crisis of Everyday Life
Yuval Levin responds to Eric Cohen’s essay
In What Sense Equal?
Amy Laura Hall responds to Eric Cohen’s essay
State of the Art
I’ve Got You Under My Skin
Tracking Technology Gets Personal
Black Box Ballyhoo
Voting Technology in the 2004 Election
Gray Matter in the Courtroom
Neuroscience as Legal Evidence
Debunking the Digital Classroom
Rethinking the Virtues of “Tech Literacy”
The Cloning Logjam
Treaty Talks Break Down at the United Nations
The Encyclopedia in Cyberspace
Wikipedia Makes Every Man an Editor
‘A Second Kind of Frontier’
The X Prize Triumph and the Future of Space Travel
No. 8Spring 2005
No. 8
Spring 2005
Essays
The Caregiving Society
Peter Augustine Lawler on caring for the old in an age of individualism
Getting Space Exploration Right
Robert Zubrin on making the Moon-Mars initiative work
Science Education and Liberal Education
Matthew B. Crawford on the trouble with today’s textbooks
Logic, DNA, and Poetry
Steve Talbott on how bad metaphors make for bad science
Daedalus and Icarus Revisited
Charles T. Rubin on science, the future, and the Haldane-Russell debate
Bioethics at the Movies
James Bowman on abortion, euthanasia, and Hollywood
State of the Art
The Embryo Wars
The U.N., Mitt Romney, and California Corruption
DNA Dragnets
The Uses and Abuses of Genetic Information
Blogs Gone Bad
The Darker Side of the Blogging Boom
Crimson Recriminations
Larry Summers vs. The Harvard Feminists
‘A Profound Loss as a Culture’
Debating Copyright in the Digital Age
Notes & Briefs
Space Tourism, Tsunami Hucksters, Artificial Friends, etc.
No. 9Summer 2005
No. 9
Summer 2005
Essays
Playgrounds of the Self
Christine Rosen on video games and modern identity
The Real Meaning of Genetics
Eric Cohen on the false fears and genuine dilemmas of modern genetics
The Computerized Academy
Matthew B. Crawford on information technology and the life of the mind
Technology and the Spirit of Ownership
Paul J. Cella III on private property as a cure for the ills of the technology age
Science, Technology, and The Public Interest
Excerpts from forty years of “a middle-aged magazine for middle-aged readers”
State of the Art
How We Measure Up
Is American Math and Science Education in Decline?
Shooting Not to Kill
America’s Development and Use of Non-Lethal Weapons
The New NASA
Mike Griffin Takes the Helm and Transforms the Agency
To Boldly Go
The end of Star Trek and Star Wars
Checking Terrorists at the Door
Small Hopes for The Real ID Act
‘An Unknowable Atom of Human Flesh’
Henry Hyde and Joe Barton on the Ethics of Stem Cell Research
Notes & Briefs
Russia’s Blackout, Los Alamos Woes, Paris Hilton, etc.
No. 10Fall 2005
No. 10
Fall 2005
Essays
Conservatives, Liberals, and Medical Progress
Daniel Callahan on politics, death, and the future of modern medicine
The Moral Education of Doctors
Philip Overby on shaping the souls of aspiring physicians
The Image Culture
Christine Rosen on Photoshop, PowerPoint, and our perception of reality
Buggy Software and Missile Defense
Mark Halpern on writing code and protecting the country
Love in the Age of Neuroscience
Mickey Craig and Jon Fennell on Tom Wolfe’s I Am Charlotte Simmons
Reconsideration
Francis Bacon’s God
Stephen A. McKnight reconsiders the religious foundations of the “New Atlantis”
Excerpt
The Aging Self
A selection from Taking Care, a report by the President’s Council on Bioethics
State of the Art
The Lessons of Katrina
Natural Horrors and Modern Technology
Relaunching NASA
Back to the Moon by 2018—Or Sooner
Bush-League Science
Are Republicans Conducting a “War on Science”?
Cicely Saunders, RIP
Remembering the Founder of the Hospice Movement
Hollywood’s Fertile Imagination
Baby-Making Goes Prime Time
Chief Justice at the Bedside
John Roberts and the End of Life
No. 11Winter 2006
No. 11
Winter 2006
Essays
The Age of Neuroelectronics
Adam Keiper on neural implants, brain-machine interfaces, and cyborg fantasies
The Trouble with the Turing Test
Mark Halpern on the fallacy of thinking computers
The Rhetoric of Extinction
Charles T. Rubin reviews four recent books on transhumanism
Are We Worthy of Our Kitchens?
Christine Rosen on expensive appliances and modern families
Who Owns the Genome?
Misha Angrist and Robert M. Cook-Deegan on intellectual property and genomics
Excerpt
The Rise of Guerrilla Media
Glenn Reynolds on blogs, Big Media, and the future of journalism
State of the Art
Human Cloning and Scientific Corruption
The South Korea Scandal and the Future of the Stem Cell Debate
The U.N.’s Net Gambit
Internationalizing Internet Governance
The $100 Laptop
A Flawed Plan to “Save the World”
Morals and the Mind
Michael Gazzaniga’s Ethical Brain
‘No Nation Can Afford to Ignore This Threat’
America Prepares for Avian Flu
Notes & Briefs
Science Education, Wikipedia’s Accuracy, Mozart’s Skull, etc.
No. 12Spring 2006
No. 12
Spring 2006
Essays
Biotechnology and the Spirit of Capitalism
Eric Cohen on the new commerce of the body
The Promise and Perils of Synthetic Biology
Jonathan B. Tucker and Raymond A. Zilinskas on regulating designer microbes
The Mislabeled Child
Brock L. Eide and Fernette F. Eide on the failure of kindergarten neurochemistry
The Many Casualties of Cloning
Richard M. Doerflinger on the lessons of the South Korean fraud
Reviews and Reconsiderations
The God Meme
Charles T. Rubin on Daniel Dennett’s unconvincing theory
Jules Verne: Father of Science Fiction?
John Derbyshire on Verne’s lesser-known works
Polio Stories
Philip J. Overby on the meaning of a forgotten epidemic
The Age of Female Computers
David Skinner on the burdens of pre-machine mathematics
A Clone’s Lament
James Bowman on life as a useful pre-cadaver
State of the Art
Censoring Scientists?
Lessons of the James Hansen Affair
Stem Cell Spin
The Bush Policy and Its Unreasonable Critics
Stuck with the Old, In with the New
NASA’s Budgetary Balancing Act
Addicted to Bad Data
Getting the Facts Straight on Ethanol
Apocalypse Averted
The BlackBerry Settlement and Patent Reform
‘Predators Are Becoming More Sophisticated’
Pornographers and Pedophiles Online
No. 13Summer 2006
No. 13
Summer 2006
Essays
Shop Class as Soulcraft
Matthew B. Crawford makes a case for the manual trades
Gifts of the Body
Gilbert Meilaender on organs, markets, and the ethics of transplantation
The Self-Portrait of a Scientist
Christine Rosen on wonder, mastery, and fame in scientific memoir
A Third Way on Network Neutrality
Robert D. Atkinson and Philip J. Weiser on the battle over broadband
The First Fourteen Days of Human Life
Patrick Lee and Robert P. George on the biology of the early embryo
The Myth of Thomas Szasz
Jeffrey Oliver on the legacy of psychiatry’s forgotten critic
Reviews and Reconsiderations
The Methanol Alternative
Robert Zubrin on how to alleviate our energy problems
Medicine Without Limits
Daniel P. Sulmasy on therapy, enhancement, and sophistry
Babies for Sale
Cheryl Miller on buying and selling our offspring
On the Shelf
Quick Takes on The Father of Surgery, Box Boats, Cloning and the Law, etc.
State of the Art
China’s Phony Science
Exposing Corruption, Plagiarism, and Fraud
Rethinking Peer Review
How the Internet is Changing Science Journals
Cyber-Insecurity
Computer Theft Puts Veterans’ Data at Risk
Sexist Science?
A “She Said, He Said” About Discrimination in the Lab
‘Stumbling into a Powerful Technology’
Baroness Greenfield on New Media and Young Minds
Notes & Briefs
Sex Selection, Chernobyl, Bottled Water, etc.
No. 14Fall 2006
No. 14
Fall 2006
Correspondence
The Beginning of Life; An Unbalanced Diagnosis; The Enhancement Wars; Three Cheers for Craftsmanship
Essays
The Paradox of Military Technology
Max Boot on American power and American vulnerability
The Moral Challenge of Modern Science
Yuval Levin on politics, ethics, and the scientific worldview
The Case for Kidney Markets
Benjamin Hippen on how to solve the kidney shortage
Is the Body Property?
Peter Augustine Lawler on rights, dignity, and organ sales
Reviews and Reconsiderations
Beyond the Right to Life
Wilfred M. McClay on the “Party of Death”
The Agony of Atomic Genius
Algis Valiunas on the tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Cloning’s Apologist
Caitrin Nicol on Ian Wilmut’s defense of research cloning
C. S. Lewis Goes to the Laboratory
Thomas W. Merrill on the science and faith of Francis Collins
State of the Art
Too Speculative?
Henry Sokolski
The Dotcomrade
Brian Boyd
The Touchy-Feely Laboratory
Christine Rosen
Space Deals
Rand Simberg
Eco-Censorship
Iain Murray
Techno-Horror in Hollywood
Sonny Bunch
‘Oblivious’
Rush Holt on Science, Technology, and Congress
Notes & Briefs
Healthier People, Sicker Oceans, Electronic Books, etc.
No. 15Winter 2007
No. 15
Winter 2007
Essays
The Hydrogen Hoax
Robert Zubrin on energy charlatans and the politicians who love them
In Whose Image Shall We Die?
Eric Cohen on living well and dying well
The Language of Nature
Steve Talbott on how science drains meaning from experience
The Scientific Mind of Ben Franklin
Jerry Weinberger on America’s first Baconian
Reviews and Reconsiderations
The Red Plague
Cheryl Miller on how China bungled SARS
Psychiatry’s Healer
Philip J. Overby on the medical humanism of Paul McHugh
Our Childless Dystopia
James Bowman on P. D. James’s The Children of Men, as novel and film
Immortality Lite
Ross Douthat on the sublime and the foolish in Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain
Theory Wars, Again
Matthew B. Crawford on reason and relativism in the academy
State of the Art
Sucker-Me Elmo
Christine Rosen
The Electoral Politics of Stem Cells
Yuval Levin
Cloning Down Under
Michael Casey
Dead Body Porn
Thomas S. Hibbs
Back to the Moon, To Stay?
Jeff Foust
Bioethics and The Public Interest
A Journal’s Lasting Legacy
No. 16Spring 2007
No. 16
Spring 2007
Essays
China’s Space Ambitions—and Ours
Jeff Kueter on the Chinese threat to American space assets and what to do about it
The Right to Life and Human Dignity
Leon R. Kass on Thomas Hobbes as a teacher of dignity
Brave New World at 75
Caitrin Nicol on reading Aldous Huxley’s novel as its first readers did
Nanoethics as a Discipline?
Adam Keiper on the proliferation of professional nanotechnology criticism
Reviews and Reconsiderations
What’s Ailing Health Care?
James C. Capretta on markets, medicine, and the limits of government
The Half-Bound World
John Derbyshire reviews Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle
The Greening of Capitalism
Nick Schulz on environmentalism as corporate exhibitionism
The Problem with Plagiarism
Jeremy Lott on the timeless drama of the copycat
Political Pseudoscience
Matthew B. Crawford on why political science is not physics
State of the Art
Reforming NIH
Yuval Levin
Energy Incrementalism
Stephanie Cohen
Seeing and Believing
Peter Suderman
What Lies Within
Christine Rosen
Digilante Justice
Ruth Martin
‘A Critical Part of the Solution’
Al Gore and the Nuclear Debate
Notes & Briefs
Sonofusion, Burnt Sponges, Smelling Technosexual, etc.
No. 17Summer 2007
No. 17
Summer 2007
Essays
Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism
Christine Rosen on MySpace, Facebook, and the costs of social networking
Human Dignity and Public Bioethics
Gilbert Meilaender on dignity as a useful concept
Melancholy’s Whole Physician
Algis Valiunas reads Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy
Heroism, Modernism, and the Utopian Impulse
James Bowman on cowboys, communists, and dreams of perfection
Reviews and Reconsiderations
Drug Addiction and the Open Society
Lee Harris on freedom and self-mastery
Parenthood at Any Price
Cheryl Miller reviews Liza Mundy’s Everything Conceivable
Intimations of the Soul
Paul J. Cella III on idolatry in the Age of Machines
Devaluing Science
Jonathan H. Adler on scientists and politics
State of the Art
‘Less Morally Problematic Alternatives’
Yuval Levin
Soldiers for Rent
Habib Moody
The Man in the Moon
Stephen Bertman
Faces Disappearing
Richard W. Sams II
‘For Better or Worse’
Tony Blair on Politics and the Media
Notes & Briefs
Live Earth, Mr. Wizard, Solving Checkers, etc.
No. 18Fall 2007
No. 18
Fall 2007
Essays
Achieving Energy Victory
Robert Zubrin on how to win the war on terror by breaking free of oil
Ghosts in the Evolutionary Machinery
Steve Talbott on digital organisms and disembodied science
The Conquest of Space and the Stature of Man
Hannah Arendt on scientists, common sense, and man’s limitations
Nature, Man, and Common Sense
Patrick J. Deneen
Science and Totalitarianism
Rita Koganzon
Thumos in Space
Charles T. Rubin
Chariots in the Sky
Stephen Bertman
Our Proud Human Future
Peter Augustine Lawler
Reviews and Reconsiderations
Launching the Space Age
James E. Oberg on the dramatic story of Sputnik
The New Pioneers
Rand Simberg on the burgeoning private space industry
The Evangelical Ecologist
S.M. Hutchens on E. O. Wilson’s Earth-piety
The Painless Peace of Twilight Sleep
Cheryl Miller on an overlooked Edith Wharton gem
State of the Art
Shot in the Dark
Caitrin Nicol
Science Warrior
Yuval Levin
Unclassifiable
Christine Rosen
Card’s Game
Peter Suderman
‘Americans Will Not Like It’
Michael Griffin on the Global Space Economy
Notes & Briefs
Blackwater Fallout, Caves on Mars, Missing Mass, etc.
No. 19Winter 2008
No. 19
Winter 2008
Essays
Science and the Left
Yuval Levin on the past and future of the “party of science”
Neuroimaging and Capital Punishment
O. Carter Snead on brain scans and the conflicted aspirations of neuroscience
The Limits of Neuro-Talk
Matthew B. Crawford on the dangers of a mindless brain science
Blogging Infertility
Cheryl Miller on the lively and fractious community of “infertiles”
Reviews and Reconsiderations
Masters and Possessors of Nature
Thomas W. Merrill reads Descartes’ Discourse on Method
Shop Till You Drop?
Jeremy Lott on suburbs, bomb shelters, and bottled water
Sick and Famous
Christy Hall Robinson on celebrity patients as advocates
State of the Art
The Clipboard of the Future
James C. Capretta
Till Malfunction Do Us Part
Caitrin Nicol
The Moral Life of Cubicles
David Franz
‘The Steroids Era’
George Mitchell on Drugs in Baseball
Notes & Briefs
Green Collars, Plastic Bags, MySpace Gangsters, etc.
No. 20Spring 2008
No. 20
Spring 2008
Essays
In Defense of Biofuels
Robert Zubrin on ethanol and its critics
Health Care 2008: A Political Primer
James C. Capretta on how and why McCain's health care plan might work
Public Opinion and the Embryo Debates
Yuval Levin analyzes a revealing new poll on bioethics
Technology and Authenticity
Bruno Macaes on enhancement, action, and truth
Biotech Enhancement and Natural Law
Ryan T. Anderson and Christopher Tollefsen on distinctions in an age of novelty
The Myth of Multitasking
Christine Rosen on doing too much at once
The Technology of Memory
James Poulos on forgetting how to remember
The Motives That Ought to Encourage Us to the Sciences
A discourse by Montesquieu translated for the first time into English by Diana Schaub
Montesquieu’s Popular Science
Diana Schaub on the study of science and the life of the mind
Reviews and Reconsiderations
Einstein’s Quest for Truth
Algis Valiunas on the mind of the man behind relativity
At Home with Down Syndrome
Caitrin Nicol reads memoirs of gratitude
No. 21Summer 2008
No. 21
Summer 2008
Essays
Nuclear Policy and the Presidential Election
Henry Sokolski on nuclear matters and why they matter
Conservatives, Climate Change, and the Carbon Tax
Jim Manzi on the cost of thinking impractically about potential risk
Donated Generation
Cheryl Miller on releasing the identities of egg and sperm donors
Rethinking Public Opinion
Thomas Fitzgerald on the problems of polling
Technology, Culture, and Virtue
Patrick J. Deneen on Wendell Berry’s unnatured man
Reviews and Reconsiderations
Is Stupid Making Us Google?
James Bowman on the “Dumbest Generation”
We Are the Change We’ve Been Waiting For
Sebastian Waisman on the “Millennial Generation”
The World Made New
Rita Koganzon on Second Life and real life
The Brat Pack of Quantum Mechanics
John Derbsyhire on a pivotal year for modern physics
The Prudence of Neuroscience
Ivan Kenneally reviews The Heart of Judgment
State of the Art
An Animal to Save the World
Jonathan H. Adler
Taking the Earth’s Temperature
Jordan R. Raney
Pipeline Diplomacy
Adam Blinick
‘Leadership from the Bottom’
Wendell Berry on Rural Revival
Notes & Briefs
Chocolate DNA, Prozac for Puppies, ELIZA, etc.
No. 22Fall 2008
No. 22
Fall 2008
Essays
Petrodollar Science
Waleed Al-Shobakky on research and education in the Arab world
People of the Screen
Christine Rosen tells a tale of two literacies
Ten Years of “Death with Dignity”
Courtney S. Campbell on Oregon’s experience with physician-assisted suicide
Fixing American Health Care
Joseph V. Kennedy on cost, quality, and competition
Health Care with a Conscience
James C. Capretta on protecting Catholic hospitals
Reviews and Reconsiderations
Beyond Mankind
Charles T. Rubin on John Harris’s “sanshumanist” project
The Confused Congresswoman
Yuval Levin on Diana DeGette’s assault on reason
Green Bridge to Nowhere
Jonathan H. Adler on Gus Speth’s unsustainable environmentalism
State of the Art
Capturing Carbon
Jordan R. Raney
Staying Afloat
Peter Suderman
‘Categories of Warfare Are Blurring’
Robert Gates on the Tactics and Tools of Tomorrow’s Battles
Notes & Briefs
Eco-Vandalism, Noise Laws, the Billion-Dollar Click, etc.
No. 23Winter 2009
No. 23
Winter 2009
Essays
The Ethics of Counterinsurgency
Keith Pavlischek on irregular warfare and international law
Military Robots and the Laws of War
P. W. Singer on how unmanned systems are transforming armed conflict
Why Minds Are Not Like Computers
Ari N. Schulman on fundamental confusion about artificial intelligence
Reality and the Postmodern Wink
James Bowman champions curmudgeonliness as an antidote to cynicism
Nations, Liberalism, and Science
Peter Augustine Lawler on civil theology and civil biology
Socialism and Cancer
David Gratzer on how government ruins medicine
Reviews and Reconsiderations
The Great Breath of Hell
Algis Valiunas on the modern way of madness
Making Men Modern
Wayne Ambler on reform and recalcitrance in Twain’s Connecticut Yankee
No. 24Spring 2009
No. 24
Spring 2009
Essays
AIDS Relief and Moral Myopia
Travis Kavulla on African culture and the public health community
Embryos in Limbo
Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill on IVF and indecision about nascent life
What and When Is Death?
Alan Rubenstein on knowing human living to define human dying
Technocracy and Populism
Ivan Kenneally on President Obama and putting politics behind us
Reviews and Reconsiderations
Is Water a Human Right?
Kendra Okonski on market solutions to the world’s “water crisis”
In Search of Chinese Science
John Derbyshire on Joseph Needham, sinologist and scientist
The Virtual Public Square
Alan Jacobs reviews Richard John Neuhaus’s final book
The True Face of Digital Democracy
Sebastian Waisman on the Internet and civic engagement
State of the Art
The Road to Rationing
Paul Howard and David Gratzer
Keeping Books Safe
Elizabeth Mullaney Nicol
The Rise of Cyber-Schools
Liam Julian
Disability Politics
Ari Ne’eman
At the Gates of a Magical Garden
G. Anthony Gorry
Down in Flames
James E. Oberg
No. 25Summer 2009
No. 25
Summer 2009
Essays
A Space Program for the Rest of Us
Rand Simberg on the wrong lessons of Apollo and the right way to reach space
The Lost Prestige of Nuclear Physics
N. J. Slabbert on the American retreat from nuclear technology
Science and Medicine in Fiction
The Ambiguous Utopia of Iain M. Banks
Alan Jacobs on the “Culture” novels and the price of bliss
Plato in Space
Charles T. Rubin on science, politics, and faith in Neal Stephenson’s Anathem
Unchosen Lives
Caitrin Nicol on Jodi Picoult’s tales at the threshold
Creating Frankenstein
Jeremy Kessler on Victor’s monster and the Shelleys’ story
Reviews and Reconsiderations
The Fusion Illusion
Max Schulz on false starts, fraud, and the real promise of nuclear fusion
Too Hot to Handle
Jordan R. Raney throws cold water on climate extremists
Medicine and Moral Authority
Daniel P. Sulmasy reviews Jonathan Imber’s Trusting Doctors
State of the Art
Fighting Fake Drugs
Roger Bate
Test Ban Treaty, Take Two
Christopher A. Ford
Romancing the Atom
Robert R. Johnson
China’s Organ Market
S. Elizabeth Forsythe
Nutrition and Tradition
John Schwenkler
No. 26Fall 2009 - Winter 2010
No. 26
Fall 2009 - Winter 2010
Essays
The Future of Chemical Weapons
Jonathan B. Tucker on a neglected threat and what to do about it
The Financial Crisis and the Scientific Mindset
Paul J. Cella III on shadow banking and the returns of rationalism
On Bioethics in Public
Gilbert Meilaender reflects on the method and legacy of the President’s Council on Bioethics
Science and the Decline of the Liberal Arts
Patrick J. Deneen
The Technocratic American University
Ivan Kenneally
Human Dignity and Higher Education
Peter Augustine Lawler
The Soul of the Scientist of Man
Shilo Brooks
The Ivy League Lament
Rita Koganzon
Reviews and Reconsiderations
Darwin’s World of Pain and Wonder
Algis Valiunas on the great scientist’s spiritual torment
Cheap Thrills
Noemie Emery defends the American consumer
The Formation of Character
David Skinner on how we write and who we are
Why We Walk
Jennifer Graf Groneberg on the origins of man and the end of walking
Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Spirit of Science
The Editors kick off a series on scientific progress and the American literary genius
Wasting the Water of Life
Kevin Laskowski on “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” and the allure of immortality
Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment
Online only: A new critical edition of Hawthorne’s story
No. 27Spring 2010
No. 27
Spring 2010
Essays
Why Not Nuclear Disarmament?
Christopher A. Ford on the questions that disarmament advocates must answer
Proportionality in Warfare
Keith Pavlischek on the abuse of an important just war principle
The Tortured Logic of Obama’s Drone War
Hillel Ofek on the strategic, legal, and moral implications of targeted killing
The Most Useful Man Who Ever Lived
William Rosen on making heroes of inventors
Reviews and Reconsiderations
Scientists Fallen Among Poets
Algis Valiunas on what the Romantics learned from scientists, and vice versa
One Man’s Quantum Culture
Jeremy Axelrod reviews a memoir of strange science and swanky society
Avatar and the Flight from Reality
James Bowman on the sci-fi blockbuster and the mimetic tradition in art
From Cursive to Cursor
Alan Jacobs on whether it matters how we write
Bad Advice for Scientists
Ari N. Schulman reviews Unscientific America
Artful by Nature
Charles T. Rubin reads “The New Adam and Eve”
The New Adam and Eve
Online only: A new critical edition of Hawthorne’s story
State of the Art
A Regrettable Reform
David Gratzer
Going Nowhere
Robert Zubrin
Claude Lévi-Strauss, RIP
Travis Kavulla
Missing the Big Picture
Jeff Robbins
The Case for Boredom
Adam J. Cox
Avatars in the Workplace
G. Anthony Gorry
‘The Unique Worth of an Individual Human Life’
On conversing with and learning from Paul Ramsey
No. 28Summer 2010
No. 28
Summer 2010
Essays
Getting Over the Code Delusion
Steve Talbott on epigenetics and the demise of DNA as destiny
How Can I Possibly Be Free?
Raymond Tallis on the neuroscientific case against free will, and why it’s wrong
Hiding Behind the Screen
Roger Scruton on the risks of friendship and the costs of shirking them
Environmentalism as Religion
Joel Garreau on energy sinners and carbon Calvinism
Churchill on Science and Civilization
Justin D. Lyons on politics and the humanities, war and peace, in the age of science
Reviews and Reconsiderations
The Science of Self-Help
Algis Valiunas on goofy advice, dubious wisdom, and neuro-gurus
Disenchanting Determinism
Caitrin Nicol reviews novels by Richard Powers and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
From Hearth-Fires to Hell-Fires
Diana Schaub reads three tales on the flames of progre