First, Take No Stand
On assisted suicide, the medical profession ducks behind “neutrality.”
What is science’s rightful place? How should we govern technology?
On assisted suicide, the medical profession ducks behind “neutrality.”
How military drone technology is quietly creeping into policing, business, and everyday life
The debate won’t be settled technocratically because it’s about technocracy itself.
Technocratic solutionism is dying. To replace it, we must learn again the creation and reception of myth.
Proposed privacy and bot laws don’t target real problems, and would cause needless harm
The sage of physics takes on politics and philosophy — and dreams of science’s last day
On the ambiguous legacy of Werner Heisenberg, quantum genius and would-be inventor of the Nazi A-bomb
How ISIS liked, shared, and posted its way to power
In suing for “climate justice,” the “children’s climate crusade” aims to subvert the democratic process.
Authoritarians’ love for digital technology is no fluke — it’s a product of Silicon Valley’s “smart” paternalism.