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The University the King Built

Winter 2018 •

Waleed Al-Shobakky reports on a Saudi experiment to solve the West’s science malaise — and become a global research powerhouse

Making Technological Miracles

Spring 2017 • Mark P. Mills defends the value of curiosity-driven science and proposes a new way to think about R&D

Two Cheers for the Retraction Boom

August 15, 2016 • Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus praise the growing scrutiny of scientific publications

Saving Science

Science isn’t self-correcting, it’s self-destructing. To save the enterprise, scientists must come out of the lab and into the real world.

August 15, 2016 • Daniel Sarewitz

Socially Just Science

Spring 2015 • Brendan P. Foht on politically correcting science and scientifically correcting politics

Science and Non-Science in Liberal Education

Summer 2013 • Harvey C. Mansfield on the confidence of scientists and the need for philosophy

The Architecture of Evil

Summer 2012 • Roger Forsgren on the lessons of Albert Speer, master architect of the Third Reich

The Political Science of James Q. Wilson

Spring 2012 • Jeremy Rozansky and Josh Lerner on the scholar of order, culture, and character

Psychotherapy and the Pursuit of Happiness

Spring 2012 • Ronald W. Dworkin on the fraught path from Freud to friendship

Why Bother with Marshall McLuhan?

Spring 2011 • Alan Jacobs on the man, the medium, and his message

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