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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 2025

Winter 2025

  • Jon Askonas

The New Control Society

The gatekeepers are dying. Why is everything so mid?

From: Reality: A Post-Mortem

Jon Askonas

Essay | Fall 2024

Fall 2024

  • R. J. Snell

Ethics Won’t Save Us From AI

Why rationalists can’t answer the doomers or the boomers

From: What Calls to Build Miss

R. J. Snell

Essay | Fall 2024

Fall 2024

  • Lauren Spohn

Dinner with Dinosaurs

The right’s new love of technological progress isn’t a good enough answer to the left’s progressive ideology. What are they both missing?

From: What Calls to Build Miss

Lauren Spohn

Essay | Fall 2024

Fall 2024

  • Thomas Hochman

Will Anyone Vote for Abundance?

“Time to build” is a great idea. But it’s not clear that liberals or conservatives really want it.

From: Why We Don’t Build

Thomas Hochman

Essay | Fall 2024

Fall 2024

  • Joseph Lawler

Mass. Exodus

Massachusetts is one of the richest states in the country — because it’s pricing out its own middle class. Why did the state stop building enough to house them?

From: Why We Don’t Build

Joseph Lawler

Essay | Summer 2024

Summer 2024

  • Brian J. A. Boyd

Why We Need Amistics for AI

Tech ethics needs a breakthrough. The Amish have it.

Brian J. A. Boyd

Review | Winter 2024

Winter 2024

  • Robert Bellafiore

Accelerating to Where?

The anti-politics of the new jet pack lament

Robert Bellafiore

Essay | Fall 2023

Fall 2023

  • Louise Liebeskind

If Scientists Were Angels

Francis Bacon has been charged with robbing science of its innocence. But what if we’ve all been reading him wrong?

From: The New Atlantis at 20

Louise Liebeskind

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

Review | Spring 2023

Spring 2023

  • Clare Coffey

Nature, Toothless and Declawed

Martha Nussbaum’s dubious case for animals as liberal subjects

Clare Coffey

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