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A More Political Science

What is science’s rightful place? How should we govern technology?

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Essay | Fall 2025

Fall 2025

  • Hannah Rowan

An Ozempic in Every Lunch Box

Big Pharma and MAHA are fighting over how to treat childhood obesity. In the meantime, what do we tell our kids?

Hannah Rowan

Essay | Winter 2025

Winter 2025

  • Garth Brown

Can You Solve a Lifestyle Epidemic Without Lifestyle Gurus?

When you’ve got a “diseases of civilization” crisis, you’re gonna get some weirdos.

Garth Brown

Essay | Fall 2024

Fall 2024

  • Sara Hendren

Homes where old people and disabled people can help each other out

From: What We Should Build

Sara Hendren

Essay | Spring 2024

Spring 2024

  • Charlotte Collingwood

Laboring in the Dark

IVF might sound like an act of taking control, but it felt like an act of surrender.

Charlotte Collingwood

Online Exclusive | March 25, 2021

March 25, 2021

  • Arturo Casadevall
  • Michael J. Joyner
  • Nigel Paneth

A Victory for Scientific Pragmatism

In an emergency, the “gold” standard of evidence may not be the wise one.

From: The Coronavirus Pandemic

Arturo Casadevall, Michael J. Joyner, Nigel Paneth

Essay | Winter 2021

Winter 2021

  • Joseph E. Davis
  • Paul Scherz

Recovering Old Age

Covid has laid bare our warehousing attitude toward the elderly. Have we forgotten what aging is for?

Joseph E. Davis and Paul Scherz

Essay | Winter 2021

Winter 2021

  • Aaron Rothstein

Little Data, Big Headlines

On overinterpreting Covid studies for clicks

From: The Coronavirus Pandemic

Aaron Rothstein

Essay | Winter 2021

Winter 2021

  • Devorah Goldman

Disarming Frontline Doctors

In its quest to meet the “gold standard,” academic medicine has put Covid patients at risk.

From: The Coronavirus Pandemic

Devorah Goldman

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Essay | Summer 2019

Summer 2019

  • Aaron Kheriaty

First, Take No Stand

On assisted suicide, the medical profession ducks behind “neutrality.”

Aaron Kheriaty

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Essay | Summer/Fall 2018

Summer/Fall 2018

  • Algis Valiunas

Jonas Salk, the People’s Scientist

How the man who vanquished polio won the public’s love but never the respect of his peers

Algis Valiunas

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