September 23, 2020
In What Sense Abundant?
Debating climate, renewal, and American decadence
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December 21, 2018
Why Do We Think We Are Disenchanted?
Debating 'The Myth of Disenchantment' by Jason A. Josephson-Storm
November 27, 2017
Must Science Be Useful?
Letters from scientists and policy experts on our widely-read article “Saving Science,” with a response from Daniel...
January 6, 2015
Elephants, Horses, Dogs, and Us; The Question Concerning Heidegger
Kudos to The New Atlantis for breaking new moral and political ground with its symposium “Regarding Animals.” For...
February 4, 2009
Debating “Death with Dignity”; Obsolete Librarians
Courtney Campbell’s essay “Ten Years of ‛Death with Dignity’” [Fall 2008] is an honest assessment by an...
March 24, 2008
The Logic of Science; Biodiversity and the Bible
The Logic of Science In his article “Ghosts in the Evolutionary Machinery” [Fall 2007], New Atlantis...
June 20, 2007
China’s Aims in Space; Debating Nanoethics
China is entering its space age, and some Americans, like Jeff Kueter, find this troubling [“China’s Space...
March 21, 2007
Rethinking the Hydrogen Economy
In 1957, Sir Harold Spencer Jones, the British astronomer, declared that “Space travel is bunk.” Two weeks...
January 3, 2007
Principle, Prudence, and the “Party of Death”
Wilfred McClay is always thoughtful, always wise, and almost always careful — but his review of my book The Party of...
September 20, 2006
The Beginning of Life; An Unbalanced Diagnosis; The Enhancement Wars; Three Cheers for Craftsmanship
In “The First Fourteen Days of Human Life” [Summer 2006], Robert George and Patrick Lee claim that “in a recent...