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A More Political Science

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

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Essay | Winter 2021

Winter 2021

  • M. Anthony Mills

The Case Against “STEM”

How blurring the line between science and technology puts both at risk

M. Anthony Mills

Essay | Winter 2021

Winter 2021

  • Caleb Watney

The Egghead Gap

If America wants to keep China from setting the global course of science, we need a crash program to recruit international talent.

Caleb Watney

Review | Fall 2020

Fall 2020

  • Michael M. Rosen

Promoting the Useful Arts

Innovators need protection, not planning.

Michael M. Rosen

Essay | Fall 2020

Fall 2020

  • Taylor Dotson
  • Michael Bouchey

Democracy and the Nuclear Stalemate

How moving beyond the scientism of the nuclear debate could deliver a long-awaited climate breakthrough — and generate fresh ideas for a more productive politics.

From: Available in Audio

Taylor Dotson and Michael Bouchey

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Essay | Winter 2020

Winter 2020

  • M. Anthony Mills
  • Mark P. Mills

The Science Before the War

How the technological feats of World War II grew out of curiosity-driven research

M. Anthony Mills and Mark P. Mills

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Review | Winter 2018

Winter 2018

  • Anthony Paletta

The Political Path to GPS

How war and peace forged the universal map

Anthony Paletta

Essay | Winter 2018

Winter 2018

  • Waleed Al-Shobakky

The University the King Built

A Saudi experiment in education aims to solve the West’s science malaise — and become a global research powerhouse.

Waleed Al-Shobakky

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Correspondence | Summer/Fall 2017

Summer/Fall 2017

Must Science Be Useful?

Scientists and policy experts respond to Daniel Sarewitz’s “Saving Science”

Essay | Spring 2017

Spring 2017

  • Mark P. Mills

Making Technological Miracles

The case for curiosity-driven science — and a new way to think about R&D

Mark P. Mills

Essay | Spring/Summer 2016

Spring/Summer 2016

  • Daniel Sarewitz

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.

From: The Integrity of Science

Daniel Sarewitz

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