The Folly of Golden Dome
Trump’s vaunted missile defense system is a plan for America’s retreat and defeat.
A More Political Science
What is science’s rightful place? How should we govern technology?
What is science’s rightful place? How should we govern technology?
Trump’s vaunted missile defense system is a plan for America’s retreat and defeat.
The new cold war means a race with China over AI, biotech, and more. This poses a hard dilemma: win by embracing technologies that make us more like our enemy — or protect ourselves from tech dehumanization but become subjects to a totalitarian menace.
The revisionist historians who cast doubt on why Truman made his fateful decision
It’s time for defense strategy to update its favorite gaming metaphors.
Opportunity now, not prophecies of doom, should spur America to become a global leader.
How the technological feats of World War II grew out of curiosity-driven research
How military drone technology is quietly creeping into policing, business, and everyday life
How ISIS liked, shared, and posted its way to power
On the ambiguous legacy of Werner Heisenberg, quantum genius and would-be inventor of the Nazi A-bomb