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A More Political Science

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

Read the Editors’ Introduction
Energy •
Health Care •
Military •
Law •
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Political Philosophy •
Innovation •
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Technocracy and Expertise •
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Essay | Spring 2025

Spring 2025

  • M. Anthony Mills

How Virologists Lost the Gain-of-Function Debate

For years, scientists kept the debate about risky virus research among themselves. Then Covid happened. As President Trump prepares to crack down on virology research, the expert community must face up to its own failures.

M. Anthony Mills

Essay | Spring 2025

Spring 2025

  • Yuval Levin

The Deeper Question Raised by the NIH Grant Overhaul

Is the Trump administration’s goal to run the government or oppose it?

Yuval Levin

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

  • Santi Ruiz

Giant nets to clean garbage from the ocean

From: What We Should Build

Santi Ruiz

Review | Summer 2024

Summer 2024

  • Leah Libresco Sargeant

How Sad Do You Feel Right Now?

The boom in amateur therapists is hurting our children, a new book argues.

Leah Libresco Sargeant

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 | 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 2022

Summer 2022

  • Taylor Dotson

Unsustainable Alarmism

The crisis mindset is a finite resource — and we’ve exhausted it. From Covid to climate change, we need a new way to manage chronic problems.

Taylor Dotson

Essay | Summer 2022

Summer 2022

  • Tom Ridge
  • Asha M. George

The Case for a Pandemic Moonshot

We cannot accept the same awful options when the next virus comes. Instead, let’s build our way out of the problem.

From: The Coronavirus Pandemic

Tom Ridge and Asha M. George

Essay | Summer 2022

Summer 2022

  • Alexander Stern

The Technocrat’s Dilemma

Expert rule is destroying itself.

Alexander Stern

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