May 18, 2011
Locke, Darwin, and America’s Future
How the philosopher and scientist shape the way we think about dignity, rights, and human nature.
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May 18, 2011
The Last Temptation of Science
There are those whose noses wrinkle whenever they catch a whiff of allegory in the air. Edgar Allan Poe, in his 1847...
January 21, 2011
What Neuroscience Cannot Tell Us About Ourselves
Debunking the tropes of neuromythology — by Raymond Tallis
January 21, 2011
The Unbearable Wholeness of Beings
The metaphor of machines pervades biological writing. But it is a profoundly misleading way of describing living...
January 21, 2011
Humanism and Transhumanism
The name of the movement known as “transhumanism” may suggest that it arises out of humanism. At the very...
January 21, 2011
The Trouble with Cyber Arms Control
Christopher A. Ford on why we should be wary of Russian and Chinese proposals
January 17, 2011
NASA’s Course Correction
While presidents do not devote much attention to space policy during their tenures, each has the opportunity to reshape...
January 17, 2011
Opening Space with a ‘Transorbital Railroad’
What the space age could learn from the age of the iron horse
January 17, 2011
In Search of a Conservative Space Policy
American civil space policy has been in turmoil since February 2010, when the Obama administration clumsily rolled out...
September 3, 2010
Getting Over the Code Delusion
Steve Talbott on epigenetics and the demise of DNA as destiny