September 18, 2009
The Ambiguous Utopia of Iain M. Banks
Alan Jacobs on Iain M. Banks's "Culture" novels and the price of bliss.
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September 18, 2009
Plato in Space
Anathem is a big book about a big topic: nothing less than the nature of the universe and of intelligence within it....
September 18, 2009
Unchosen Lives
Tout comprendre, c’est tout pardonner (“to know all is to forgive all”) is a questionable saying on...
September 18, 2009
Creating Frankenstein
The standard Frankenstein read during most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was the third published version of...
July 23, 2009
A Space Program for the Rest of Us
Rand Simberg on the wrong lessons of Apollo and the right way to reach space
May 24, 2009
AIDS Relief and Moral Myopia
Public-health specialists working on AIDS in Africa are fond of invoking “ignorance.” It is a term assigned...
May 24, 2009
Embryos in Limbo
Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill on IVF and indecision about embryonic human life
May 24, 2009
What and When Is Death?
Alan Rubenstein on knowing human living to define human dying
May 24, 2009
Technocracy and Populism
Ivan Kenneally on President Obama and the desire to put politics behind us
February 6, 2009
Why Minds Are Not Like Computers
The fundamental confusion about artificial intelligence