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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 2023

Fall 2023

  • Lars Erik Schönander

The Open Sky

How revolutions in space, imaging, and AI could open up satellite surveillance to the masses

Lars Erik Schönander

Essay | Fall 2023

Fall 2023

  • John Fechtel

In Your Face

Apple’s friction eliminators want to get under your skin.

John Fechtel

Essay | Fall 2023

Fall 2023

  • Peter Z. Grossman

The Fantasy of Energy Independence

50 years ago, America was shocked by gas lines during the Arab oil embargo. The memory still haunts bad energy policy today.

Peter Z. Grossman

Essay | Fall 2023

Fall 2023

  • Charles Fain Lehman

The Downer About Uppers

Adderall is America’s new legal drug of choice. Is it fueling the drug crisis?

Charles Fain Lehman

Essay | Fall 2023

Fall 2023

  • Garth Brown

Oiling the Chicken Machine

Queasy about lab-grown meat? Too bad — you’ve pretty much been eating it for decades.

Garth Brown

Essay | Fall 2023

Fall 2023

  • Ari Schulman

Missing the Manhattan Project

What America has forgotten from a moment when we still knew that science could conquer — and sin

From: The New Atlantis at 20

Ari Schulman

Essay | Summer 2023

Summer 2023

  • M. Anthony Mills

The Masking Debate We Didn’t Have

The Covid establishment saw masking policies as purely scientific. Now critics are making the same mistake.

M. Anthony Mills

Essay | Summer 2023

Summer 2023

  • A Lover of Good Government
  • Philip Wallach

How Congress Was Saved

A report from the year 2039 on how the spirit of efficiency reformed a once-maligned institution

A Lover of Good Government and Philip Wallach

Editorial | Summer 2023

Summer 2023

  • The Editors of The New Atlantis

Take No for an Answer on Genetic Engineering

Good news: The agonizing moral quandary of “designer babies” has been resolved. But will scientists accept democracy’s verdict?

The Editors of The New Atlantis

Essay | Summer 2023

Summer 2023

  • Louise Liebeskind

Sam Altman Doesn’t Want To Be Your AI King

...but he might be anyway.

From: They’re Here…

Louise Liebeskind

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