AI and the Transformation of the Human Spirit The first stage of grief is denial, but despair is also misplaced. Steven D. Hales 13 Feb 2023 · 12 min read
ChatGPT and the Future of the Professions Professionals must learn to work with the machines or they will be replaced by them. Sean Welsh 26 Jan 2023 · 12 min read
The Crypto Token Economy Is Second-Order Fraud The entire industry is artifice built atop artifice. Sohale Mortazavi 24 Jan 2023 · 16 min read
Hope, Trust, and Religious Faith In the 1990s, religious Americans embraced science’s re-definition of spirituality. They would be unwise to repeat this mistake. Ronald W. Dworkin 17 Jan 2023 · 10 min read
Experiences with Suicide Coping with a uniquely painful kind of bereavement. Art Kusserow 16 Jan 2023 · 8 min read
More Than Just a Social Construct The fiction that race has no biological basis is more likely to exacerbate health disparities than narrow them. Robert J. Morris 8 Jan 2023 · 8 min read
Saving Twitter—A Roundtable Elon Musk’s controversial takeover of Twitter has led many commentators to wonder if the platform can be improved by its new owner. In this roundtable, three writers offer their thoughts and suggestions. Bo Winegard, Jim Rutt, and Cody Moser 14 Dec 2022 · 17 min read
The Philadelphia Experiments How an enterprising doctor, an elite university, and negligent public officials turned a city prison system into the largest human research factory in America. Allen M. Hornblum 10 Dec 2022 · 26 min read
Brute Physical Facts and Social Construction The progressive and the traditionalist are equally detached from the underlying reality as currently described by science. Vinod Goel 6 Dec 2022 · 11 min read
Religious Permanence The human brain evolved to be religious, but religion also evolved to appeal to the human brain. Bo Winegard 18 Nov 2022 · 10 min read
The Energy Future Belongs to Nuclear It remains the only proven technology capable of serving the energy needs of de-carbonized modern society. Regis Nicoll 4 Nov 2022 · 6 min read
Science by Quota Australia’s unnecessary new NHMRC policy will lead to a decline in scientific quality. Anthony Jorm 3 Nov 2022 · 8 min read
‘The Dawn of Everything’ and the Politics of Human Prehistory David Graeber and David Wengrow’s tendentious assault on the Enlightenment and its modern defenders is a bust. Dennis J. Junk 22 Oct 2022 · 21 min read
Anti-Male Bias at the NHMRC Imposing gender quotas for research funding is counterproductive and sets a dangerous new precedent. Lawrence M. Krauss 20 Oct 2022 · 4 min read
Disease and Deception The rise of Munchausen by Internet syndrome is inseparable from the spread of online subcultures that valorize disability. Lucy Kross Wallace 20 Oct 2022 · 12 min read