Technology

The Search for New Voting Technology

America’s voting technologies are gravely inefficient, but solutions are less complicated than many politicians have indicated.

  • Stephen Ansolabehere
with responses from
  • Lloyd Cutler & Robert Michel
  • Rogers M. Smith
  • Donna Brazile
  • David C. King
  • Daniel R. Ortiz
  • E. Joshua Rosenkranz
  • Robert Richie
  • Mickey Edwards
  • Heather Gerken
  • Marc Strassman
  • Michael Cornfield

What’s Wrong with Missile Defense

 An interview with Ted Postol.

  • Joshua Cohen

Is the Internet Bad for Democracy?

Emerging technologies increase people’s ability to wall themselves off from topics and opinions that they would prefer to avoid, creating serious dangers.

  • Cass Sunstein
with responses from
  • Jay Rosen
  • Simson Garfinkel
  • Michael Schudson
  • Ronald N. Jacobs
  • Shanto Iyengar
  • Henry Jenkins
  • Robert W. McChesney

Misbehavior

Stephen Jay Gould is wrong about evolution.

  • John Alcock

Beyond Backyard Environmentalism

The United States is in the midst of a fundamental reorientation of its environmental regulation, one that is as improbable as it is unremarked.

  • Charles Sabel
  • Bradley Karkkainen
  • Archon Fung
with responses from
  • Matt Wilson & Eric Weltman
  • Daniel J. Fiorino
  • Theodore J. Lowi
  • DeWitt John
  • Jacqueline Savitz
  • Lawrence Susskind
  • Daniel A. Farber
  • Jason F. Shogren
  • Cass Sunstein

Gould on God

Can religion and science be happily reconciled?

  • H. Allen Orr

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Review: Books on Euthanasia

Two new collections of essays contribute to the public debate—with varied results.

  • Jyl Gentzler

The Car As Hero

Has any other industrial product so dominated its time?

  • Neil Shister

The Big Picture

A review of Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by E. O. Wilson.

  • H. Allen Orr

How the Mind Really Works

An exchange on Robert C. Berwick and Jeremy C. Ahouse's review of Stephen Pinker's How the Mind Works (BR, April/May 1998)

  • Steven Pinker
  • Robert C. Berwick
  • Jeremy C. Ahouse

Can We Control Disease?

Science’s victory over bacteria, viruses, and other microbes is far from assured—and we may be part of the problem.

  • Peter Godfrey-Smith

Abortion’s Past

Before Roe, abortion providers operated on the margins of medicine. They still do.

  • Maureen Paul
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