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No. 1Spring 2003

No. 1

Spring 2003

Editorial

The New Politics of Technology

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
Interview

Is Cyberspace Secure?

An interview with “cybersecurity czar” Howard A. Schmidt
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.
Looking Ahead

Biotechnology by the Numbers

Looking Back

The Double Helix at Fifty

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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.
Looking Ahead

Learning from Columbia

Looking Back

Reflections on the Tiniest Things

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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.
Looking Ahead

China Takes Off

Looking Back

The Wright Stuff

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No. 4Winter 2004

No. 4

Winter 2004

Biotechnology and the Good Life

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 Spirit of Discovery

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.
Looking Ahead

Reviewing American Intelligence

Looking Back

John Deere and America’s Character

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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.
Looking Ahead

The Return of the Space Debate

Looking Back

25 Years in the Sausage Factory

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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
Internet Pornography: An Exchange

The End of Obscenity

Jeffrey Rosen

The Pornography Culture

David B. Hart
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.
Looking Ahead

The Virtual Stump

Looking Back

King James for Surgeon General

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No. 7Fall 2004 - Winter 2005

No. 7

Fall 2004 - Winter 2005

Editorials

Science in the Public Square

The Bioethics Agenda and the Bush Second Term

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
The Embryo Question

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
Looking Ahead

Science and Tech Policy: What Next?

Looking Back

Politicizing Science, Sixties-Style

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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.
Looking Ahead

Assessing the Nanotech Revolution

Looking Back

Is Nuclear Energy Coming Back?

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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”
John Paul II and the Ethics of the Body

The Anti-Theology of the Body

David B. Hart

Reading the Body

Robert W. Jenson
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.
Looking Ahead

Picking Judges Online

Looking Back

Hiroshima and Nagasaki at Sixty

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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
Looking Ahead

A New Approach on Climate Change?

Looking Back

Einstein’s Annus Mirabilis

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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.
Looking Ahead

TV is Dead, Long Live TV

Looking Back

Discovering Pluto

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No. 12Spring 2006

No. 12

Spring 2006

Correspondence

Visions of the Future; The Turing Test

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
Looking Ahead

Drowning Polar Bears

Looking Back

The Jungle at 100

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No. 13Summer 2006

No. 13

Summer 2006

Correspondence

Biocapitalism

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.
Looking Ahead

Stop the Pop

Looking Back

The Stem Cell President

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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
Commerce of the Body

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.
Looking Ahead

400 Million Americans

Looking Back

The Last Breath of Thomas Edison

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No. 15Winter 2007

No. 15

Winter 2007

Correspondence

Principle, Prudence, and the “Party of Death”

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
Looking Ahead

Windows Whimpers

Looking Back

Sterile Thinking

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No. 16Spring 2007

No. 16

Spring 2007

Correspondence

Rethinking the Hydrogen Economy

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.
Looking Ahead

The HPV Vaccine Debate

Looking Back

The Human Checkmate

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No. 17Summer 2007

No. 17

Summer 2007

Correspondence

China’s Aims in Space; Debating Nanoethics

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.
Looking Ahead

The Summer of Love

Looking Back

The Steamboat that Stayed

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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
A Half-Century in Space

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.
Looking Ahead

First Ripples of the Silver Tsunami

Looking Back

The Heartbeat Heard Round the World

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No. 19Winter 2008

No. 19

Winter 2008

Editorial

John McCain and the Stem Cell Debate

Correspondence

The Logic of Science; Biodiversity and the Bible

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.
Looking Ahead

Adapting to Climate Change

Looking Back

Loose Nukes at Home

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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
Montesquieu and the Motives for Science

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
Looking Ahead

An Olympic Fiasco

Looking Back

A Debate Still Patently Alive

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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.
Looking Ahead

Counting Correctly

Looking Back

The First Stitch

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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.
Looking Ahead

The Future of Cell Biology

Looking Back

The Model T and American Life

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No. 23Winter 2009

No. 23

Winter 2009

Correspondence

Debating “Death with Dignity”; Obsolete Librarians

Editorial

Science and the Obama Administration

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
Looking Ahead

Dilly-Dallying on Iran

Looking Back

The Inventor President

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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
Looking Ahead

The Stakes in the Health Care Fight

Looking Back

Fifty Years of “Two Cultures”

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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
Looking Ahead

Get Moving on Yucca

Looking Back

Our Petroleum Prosperity

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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, the Humanities, and the University

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
Hawthorne Series

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
Looking Ahead

Bioethics: Left, Right, and Wrong

Looking Back

The Bhopal Injustice

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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
Hawthorne Series

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
Looking Ahead

The Future of Health Care

Looking Back

Part of Our Complete Breakfast

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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
Hawthorne Series

From Hearth-Fires to Hell-Fires

Diana Schaub reads three tales on the flames of progress

Ethan Brand

Online only: A new critical edition of Hawthorne’s story

Earth’s Holocaust

Online only: A new critical edition of Hawthorne’s story

Fire Worship

Online only: A new critical edition of Hawthorne’s story
Looking Ahead

Shoot First, Get Copyright Later

Looking Back

Lighter-than-Air Follies

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No. 29Fall 2010