January 17, 2014
Why and How We Should Break OPEC Now
The effects of the U.S. energy boom will be neither as great nor as lasting as might be expected from all the attention...
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January 17, 2014
Scientism in the Arts and Humanities
Roger Scruton on why art is more than matter and meme
January 17, 2014
Tocqueville on Technology
Critics say that Alexis de Tocqueville failed to notice the importance of technology in young America. But Benjamin...
December 17, 2013
Brave New World, Plato’s Republic, and Our Scientific Regime
Matthew J. Franck compares the utopian visions of Huxley and Plato
September 4, 2013
Philanthropy’s Original Sin
William A. Schambra on U.S. foundations’ legacy of support for eugenics, and the charitable alternative to scientific...
September 4, 2013
Science and Non-Science in Liberal Education
Natural science, with its standards of experimental rigor, has come to dominate the university, leaving many...
September 4, 2013
The Secular Religions of Progress
Economists often try to present their discipline as truly scientific — a value-neutral tool for predicting policy...
September 4, 2013
The Good Doctor
A student of the late Dr. Edmund Pellegrino, a former chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics and one of the...
September 4, 2013
The Golem and the Limits of Artifice
Charles T. Rubin on what the Jewish legend can (and cannot) teach us about bioethics.
September 4, 2013
Disenchantment and Its Discontents
Joseph Bottum on why Catholics need not choose between science and wonder.