L. M. Sacasas
The Inescapable Town Square
Naomi Schaefer Riley
Preserving Real-Life Childhood
Shoshana Weissmann
How Not to Regulate Social Media
Nolen Gertz
The Four Facebooks
Ashley May
Do You Know Who Your ‘Friends’ Are?
Micah Meadowcroft
The Distance Between Us
Andy Smarick
The Emergent Order of Twitter
James Poulos
Imagine All the People
Caitrin Keiper
Making Friends of Trolls
A purpose-driven plan to open the lunar frontier
by Robert Zubrin
The Return of the Space Visionaries
by Rand Simberg
How space tycoons are bringing back the dream of truly settling the “high frontier” — and how policy can catch up
Lost on Mars
by Micah Meadowcroft
Why space colonization will disappoint you
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Can Chess Survive Artificial Intelligence?
by Yoni Wilkenfeld
Computers are taking the error out of human chess — and the adventure.
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NASA’s Next 50 Years
by Robert Zubrin
A half-century after Apollo, the agency risks irrelevance. It’s time for a real — and different — mission.
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In Search of Lost Time on YouTube
by Laurence Scott
How the platform takes us to places where we ache to go again
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Make Physics Real Again
by David Guaspari
Why have so many physicists shrugged off the paradoxes of quantum mechanics?
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The Tech Backlash We Really Need
by L. M. Sacasas
Silicon Valley will only be strengthened by its present scandals unless we ask deeper questions.
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Jihadi Digital Natives
by P. W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking
How ISIS liked, shared, and posted its way to power
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Why Data Is Never Raw
by Nick Barrowman
On the seductive myth of information free of human judgment
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Time to Log Off
by Ian Marcus Corbin
On recognizing inhumane arrangements for what they are
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Jonas Salk, the People’s Scientist
by Algis Valiunas
The man who vanquished polio won the public’s love but never the respect of his peers.
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Did Thomas Kuhn Kill Truth?
by David Kordahl
A debate on the nature of truth turns into a squabble over whether the father of the “paradigm shift” threw an ashtray at Errol Morris’s head.
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Do Elephants Have Souls?
Listen to the classic 2013 essay by Caitrin Keiper.
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Our Uneasy Tranquility
by Heather Zeiger
American use of anti-anxiety pills has skyrocketed. Should we be worried?
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The Most Dangerous Possible German
by Algis Valiunas
On the ambiguous legacy of Werner Heisenberg, quantum genius and would-be inventor of the Nazi A-bomb
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Steven Weinberg Glimpses the Promised Land
by David Kordahl
The sage of physics takes on politics and philosophy — and dreams of science’s last day
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Why Do We Think We Are Disenchanted?
Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm, Doug Sikkema, and John Wilson debate The Myth of Disenchantment
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What Happened to Bioethics?
by Yuval Levin
Why biomedical research doesn’t roil national politics anymore — and the thin hope offered by the last time it did
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How Facebook Deforms Us
by L. M. Sacasas
Strengthening our social fabric won’t be enough to fix the platform that’s fraying it.
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