October 4, 2023
The Open Sky
Any time you walk outside, satellites may be watching you from space. There are currently more than 8,000 active...
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October 4, 2023
In Your Face
When Apple announced this summer that Vision Pro, its new virtual reality goggles, will be available for purchase in...
October 4, 2023
The Fantasy of Energy Independence
It has now been fifty years since the oil crisis that began when Arab members of OPEC imposed an embargo on the United...
October 4, 2023
The Downer About Uppers
Americans can’t find enough Adderall. In 2021 pharmacists filled over forty million prescriptions for the popular...
October 4, 2023
Oiling the Chicken Machine
In her community, it’s common knowledge that my mom is a soft touch when it comes to chickens. She maintains a motley...
July 14, 2023
Missing the Manhattan Project
Once upon a time, Americans followed the science. Bunsen burners burned, data clustered dutifully, hypotheses rose and...
July 3, 2023
Resistance in the Arts
It is the Year of Our Lord 1672, and you are an elderly Londoner. At your birth Queen Elizabeth sat on the throne, but...
July 3, 2023
The Masking Debate We Didn’t Have
“Mask Up DC” signs are still visible in the windows of some businesses around Washington, D.C. Are these signs...
July 3, 2023
How Congress Was Saved
Not so long ago, Congress was a place where good ideas went to die, consumed as it was by the worst kind of partisan...
July 3, 2023
Culture War as Imitation Game
The French social theorist René Girard, born in 1923, is not quite yet a household name, but his work does...
