And we’re all losing. | Continue reading
A world of authentic, post-spin journalism: The dream Jon Stewart spent a decade making real is now America’s waking nightmare. What did he get so wrong? | Continue reading
Cheese, curry, beer: We can thank our ancestors who put food scraps to creative use. What we’re leaving our children is garbage. | Continue reading
The failure of a mega-popular critique of climate science shows why we need a third option in the debate. | Continue reading
Expert rule is destroying itself. | Continue reading
I remember my first encounter with great literature. Before bedtime, my father would read Great Expectations to me, using different voices for different characters. I remember Pip and Miss Havisham, though I don’t think I fully understood Miss Havisham’s peremptory and eery comma … | Continue reading
Earnest critics of social media are repeating the dehumanizing mistakes that got us here. | Continue reading
How an exhausted liberalism killed sci-fi’s sunniest franchise | Continue reading
This essay is not real. | Continue reading
On the creepiness of an Internet that caters to who it thinks we are | Continue reading
It’s time for defense strategy to update its favorite gaming metaphors. | Continue reading
Alan Jacobs spies demons | Continue reading
Cheapness isn’t just about rockets — it will change the design of everything we send up. | Continue reading
The state of exception during the pandemic was not an inevitability. It became an inevitable political reality in those countries that proved unable to take control of events. When rules and routines are inflexibly followed, a moment arrives when they have to be forcefully abando … | Continue reading
To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the launch of Sputnik, The New Atlantis revisits Hannah Arendt’s classic 1963 essay about modern science and the human meaning of our forays into space. Five commentators respond to her argument and discuss its relevance today. | Continue reading
Christine Rosen on doing too much at once | Continue reading
Nicholas Carr on bringing America's spirit of the common good to online governance | Continue reading
On whether thinking can save us | Continue reading
Why Covid security theater failed | Continue reading
Matthew B. Crawford on the threat of rule by algorithmic fiat | Continue reading
Nick Barrowman on some misconceptions about statistics in science and everyday life | Continue reading
The extraordinary story of two Pacific voyages of discovery a thousand years apart | Continue reading
If we had to solve the human condition before we tried anything new, we’d never try anything new. | Continue reading
Alan Jacobs on Iain M. Banks's "Culture" novels and the price of bliss. | Continue reading
In storage at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is the secret to what one professor calls “the first Down Syndrome Association in the history of the world.” In 1982, Dr. Brian Stratford, a specialist in developmental disabilities at the University of Nottingham, suggested in the … | Continue reading
How feckless Covid leadership turned us against each other | Continue reading
Alan Jacobs on how the genre offers re-enchantment without risk | Continue reading
Neil Postman was right. So what? | Continue reading
If America wants to keep China from setting the global course of science, we need a crash program to recruit international talent. | Continue reading
On the unified cosmic vision of Alexander von Humboldt, the nineteenth century’s great naturalist-adventurer | Continue reading
Robert Herritt on how we know what we know, and what to do when experts disagree | Continue reading
How polls replaced reality | Continue reading
Our rejection of craftsmanship wrongly ignores the cognitive, social, and remunerative rewards of skilled manual work, and wrongly assumes that white-collar work always engages the mind. Matthew B. Crawford recounts life as a motorcycle mechanic and makes a case for the manual tr … | Continue reading
Hillel Ofek on the lost Golden Age and the rejection of reason | Continue reading
On Covid-19, America’s political leaders need to stop acting like spectators and get in the game. | Continue reading
Bidding farewell to America’s car culture — and its democratic virtues | Continue reading
Simone Weil, her brother André, and truths that do not converge | Continue reading
Can our polarized country act on provisional knowledge? | Continue reading
We need creative breakthroughs in energy, medicine, and transportation. How can we plan for them? Great inventions are often unpredictable and serendipitous — and so curiosity-driven research remains essential for technological progress. | Continue reading
L. M. Sacasas on how online life breaks the old political order | Continue reading
Why fighting about Covid-19’s fatality rate is a distraction | Continue reading
It’s about the spike. | Continue reading
Yes, the Covid-19 shutdown is necessary — but it won’t work without a vision of how it ends. | Continue reading
An interview on the state of the pandemic with the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy | Continue reading
How fears of mind control went from paranoid delusion to conventional wisdom | Continue reading
Ted Nordhaus on limiting growth in an age of stagnation | Continue reading
The dream of a global conversion to austerity has failed to stop climate change. Energy abundance is our best hope for living well with warming — and reversing it. | Continue reading
On ‘Robinson Crusoe,’ ‘Lost,’ and why we keep returning to mysterious islands where science blurs with the supernatural | Continue reading