How military drone technology is quietly creeping into policing, business, and everyday life | Continue reading
Nick Barrowman on the shaky science underlying a popular idea | Continue reading
The debate won’t be settled technocratically because it’s about technocracy itself. | Continue reading
Technocratic solutionism is dying. To replace it, we must learn again the creation and reception of myth. | Continue reading
Technocratic solutionism is dying. To replace it, we must learn again the creation and reception of myth. | Continue reading
Laurence Scott on how the platform takes us to places where we ache to go again | Continue reading
A half-century after Apollo, the agency risks irrelevance. It’s time for a real — and different — mission. | Continue reading
David Bentley Hart on Daniel Dennett’s mindless materialism | Continue reading
On the lowly view of reason in 'Deadwood' | Continue reading
On the ambiguous legacy of Werner Heisenberg, quantum genius and would-be inventor of the Nazi A-bomb | Continue reading
Clare Coffey on why debunking mesmerism only made it stronger | Continue reading
Social media is a throwback, combining the worst of prior eras of communication. | Continue reading
Proposed privacy and bot laws don’t target real problems, and would cause needless harm. | Continue reading
A symposium on the crisis of online speech | Continue reading
Caitrin Nicol Keiper on the evidence for non-human intelligence, awareness, and emotion | Continue reading
As baby manufacturing draws near, academic ethicists play frivolous games | Continue reading
Why have so many physicists shrugged off the paradoxes of quantum mechanics? | Continue reading
Authoritarians’ love for digital technology is no fluke — it’s a product of Silicon Valley’s “smart” paternalism | Continue reading
Daniel N. Robinson on the gaps between scientific explanation and human experience | Continue reading
Steve Talbott on epigenetics and the demise of DNA as destiny | Continue reading
Don’t blame the algorithm — as long as there are racial disparities in the justice system, sentencing software can never be entirely fair. | Continue reading
Austin L. Hughes challenges the trespassing of scientists on philosophy’s domain | Continue reading
On the seductive myth of information free of human judgment | Continue reading
Rand Simberg on how space tycoons are bringing back the dream of truly settling the “high frontier” — and how policy can catch up | Continue reading
Robert Zubrin offers a purpose-driven plan to open the lunar frontier | Continue reading
Samuel Matlack revisits Jacques Ellul’s classic analysis of technique | Continue reading
A debate on the nature of truth turns into a squabble over whether the father of the “paradigm shift” threw an ashtray at Errol Morris’s head. | Continue reading
Daniel Sarewitz on why scientists must come out of the lab and into the real world | Continue reading
Silicon Valley will only be strengthened by its present scandals unless we ask deeper questions, writes L. M. Sacasas | Continue reading
On the quiet alignment between “smart” government and the universal information engine. By Adam J. White, director of the Center for the Study of the Administrative State at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School | Continue reading