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A More Political Science

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

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Correspondence | Winter 2022

Winter 2022

  • Paul Matzko

How the “Public Interest” Serves the Interest of the Powerful

From: Debating the “Public Interest” Online

Paul Matzko

Correspondence | Winter 2022

Winter 2022

  • Rachel Bovard

Rule Social Media, or Be Ruled by It

From: Debating the “Public Interest” Online

Rachel Bovard

Correspondence | Winter 2022

Winter 2022

  • Josh Hawley

Big Tech Should Answer to the Public, Not to Speech Regulators

From: Debating the “Public Interest” Online

Josh Hawley

Essay | Fall 2021

Fall 2021

  • Nicholas Carr

How to Fix Social Media

A century ago, new media tech brought fake news, privacy woes, and censorship fights — and American democracy tamed it. It’s time for new legislation that revives the wisdom of that era.

From: Debating the “Public Interest” Online

Nicholas Carr

Essay | Summer 2021

Summer 2021

  • Oliver Traldi

Libidinal Liberalism

Does banning bad behavior just make it worse?

Oliver Traldi

Essay | Winter 2021

Winter 2021

  • Devorah Goldman

Disarming Frontline Doctors

In its quest to meet the “gold standard,” academic medicine has put Covid patients at risk.

From: The Coronavirus Pandemic

Devorah Goldman

Special Report | Summer 2015

Summer 2015

The Threat of Human Cloning

Ethics, Recent Developments, and the Case for Action
Executive Summary
Members of the Witherspoon Council
Preface: Cloning Then and Now
Part One: Scientific and Historical Background
Part Two: The Case Against Cloning-to-Produce-Children
Part Three: The Case Against Cloning-for-Biomedical-Research
Part Four: Cloning Policy in the United States
Part Five: Recommendations
Appendix: State Laws on Human Cloning
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Essay | Fall 2019

Fall 2019

  • Zach Graves
  • M. Anthony Mills

Reviving Expertise in a Populist Age

Wary of technocracy, a feckless Congress defers to executive bureaucrats.

Zach Graves and M. Anthony Mills

Essay | Spring 2019

Spring 2019

  • Tess Doezema

Why Science Can’t Break the GMO Stalemate

The debate won’t be settled technocratically because it’s about technocracy itself.

Tess Doezema

Essay | Spring 2019

Spring 2019

  • Shoshana Weissmann

How Not to Regulate Social Media

Proposed privacy and bot laws don’t target real problems, and would cause needless harm

From: The Ruin of the Digital Town Square

Shoshana Weissmann

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