The State of ‘Nature’ Mucking around in the messy business of political compromises and calculations puts scientists at a distance from what they really know. Oliver Traldi 29 Mar 2023 · 7 min read
Gender Equity When It Suits Organisations should apply the principle evenhandedly. Anthony Jorm 13 Mar 2023 · 6 min read
The Rise of Father Absence and Its Attendant Social Ills Fatherless children are at higher risk of delinquency that undermines their own prospects and disrupts the communities in which they reside. David C. Geary 7 Mar 2023 · 13 min read
Heavy Lifting Natalia Mehlman Petrzela’s ‘Fit Nation’ offers a fascinating but frustratingly selective history of America’s physical fitness obsession. Joe Lombardo 7 Mar 2023 · 10 min read
Artificially Intelligent Offense? ChatGPT has been programmed to avoid giving accurate information if it may cause offense. Lawrence M. Krauss 21 Feb 2023 · 12 min read
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 · 13 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 · 17 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 · 11 min read
Experiences with Suicide Coping with a uniquely painful kind of bereavement. Art Kusserow 16 Jan 2023 · 9 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 · 9 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 · 12 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
