January 6, 2015
Modernity and Our American Heresies
America, some of its critics say, has less grounding in tradition than any other nation in history. The German...
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January 6, 2015
The Neuroscience of Despair
The trouble with seeing depression solely as a brain malfunction
September 30, 2014
The Invention of the War Machine
M. Anthony Mills and Mark P. Mills on how the war shaped science, technology, and military-industrial research
September 30, 2014
The Forgotten Honor of World War I
Responding to those progressive historians who call the war an avoidable mistake — and who hint that we, today, know...
September 30, 2014
My Brain and I
Roger Scruton offers an alternative to the grand ambition of the neurophilosophers.
September 30, 2014
The Optimistic Science of Leibniz
Marc E. Bobro on the Enlightenment thinker’s encyclopedic project of physics and faith
September 30, 2014
A Feeling for Pain
Modern medicine has mastered the elimination of pain to an impressive degree. But as Ronald W. Dworkin, a practicing...
September 30, 2014
Evolution and Ethics, Revisited
The temptation to draw moral lessons from biology is strong today — but it is hardly new. As the historian Gertrude...
September 30, 2014
Liberty and the Environment
Are modern societies and free economies antithetical to the flourishing of the natural world?
September 30, 2014
Remembering Thomas P. Hughes
Whenever I receive inquiries about the effects of technological change on American society, my response is to steer...