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    Jul 30

    "Pornography doesn't cause violence against women, it actually prevents it." Drugs, abortion, sex work, violent video games — on a curious recurring argument for liberalism:

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    Hydrogen cars are absurd. Hydrogen is made from methane, losing about half its energy in the process. Then, when stored in cars, a compressed gas tank can hold triple the energy using CH4 instead of H2. Methane is cheaper and triples the cars range.

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  3. Aug 25

    Our culture needs not a less, but a more political science. Explore the work that we have done to build a better relationship between science and politics:

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  4. Aug 22

    What started as a hushed melody has become a loud refrain: The mind is a computer, we are chemical machines, our deepest beliefs are the arbitrary results of contingent evolutionary history. Read about how to push back against this dreary view:

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  5. Aug 19

    If a boot is really stamping a human face, why is the loudest cry we can muster that it apply its pressure equally and transparently? On the trouble with the tech backlash:

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    Aug 18

    some guy on reddit got a Geiger counter and

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  7. Aug 18

    The correct answer is D: A proposal that exists only to troll people into revealing that they don't actually believe a liberal ethics of autonomy-and-consent is adequate — or that they do.

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  8. Aug 16

    If 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘈𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘴 aims to reveal these many ironies of the modern story, we also aim to understand it as a story — as much an exercise in mythology as history, by its advocates and detractors alike. Explore our project:

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  9. Aug 16

    Looking to get to the moon by, say, 2024? Read 's plan to do it on the cheap, with a real purpose, and without the pointless lunar gateway:

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  10. Aug 13

    How does our society balance health against other goods? From our archives, an essay by Yuval Levin on the moral tradeoffs around stem cell research and the fiscal tradeoffs in health care policy that provides valuable insights to our Covid debates today.

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  11. Aug 13

    A more natural science seeks to heal the fracture between nature and humankind that would at once cast human beings as insignificant specks in an indifferent cosmos and "masters and possessors of nature." Explore our project:

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  12. Aug 13

    "We have progressed very little since Descartes’s day. The classical problems that mental events pose for physicalism remain as numerous and seemingly insoluble as ever." David Bentley Hart on Daniel Dennett:

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  13. Aug 12

    For Martin Heidegger, technology (such as Twitter) abolishes distance but brings no "nearness."

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  14. Aug 12

    Thanks to fantasy writing, "imaginatively, if not in substantive belief, we are pagans once more," argues Alan Jacobs.

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  15. Aug 11

    A paradox of transhumanism is its idea that nature is somehow unnatural, not the way it is supposed to be.

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  16. Aug 11

    Chimera research blurs the boundary not only between animal and human, but also between the body and the person—treating the living human body as an object for exploitation, rather than the physical presence of the person, the seat of the soul.

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  17. Aug 11

    If Darwin gives comfort and even delight to atheists who claim him as a patron, they are mistaken in their choice of hero.

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  18. Aug 11

    According to data from the late 1990s, two-thirds of Americans live in places where it is impossible to see the Milky Way. Virtually none will ever experience a night dark enough for the Milky Way to cast shadows on the ground:

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  19. Aug 10

    From our archives, a timely piece for thinking about the new Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act: Adam White on how the nation-building role of infrastructure policy in American history has always been about more than just federal spending.

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  20. Aug 10

    Our culture talks about how doctors should help us select our children’s traits in the same register in which we talk about how they should help us select the diet plan that best expresses our values. We offer a more serious approach to these problems:

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  21. Aug 10

    Apollo was a great triumph in its own right, but that doesn't make it a model for our future in space: A good primer on a perennial debate over space policy from our archives, by :

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