Science

Abortion’s Past

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

  • Maureen Paul

Race, Genes, and IQ

Critics of The Bell Curve have attacked every point in the book—except the most important one.

  • Ned Block

The Return of the Expressed

  • Jay Rosen

Into the Electronic Millennium

The first installment of a new series, Terminal Reading.

  • Sven Birkerts

Feminism and Science

Feminist analysis compels us to reconsider our most basic assumptions about the principles, methods, and aims of science.

  • Evelyn Fox Keller

Computer Science and Civil Courage

Are the questions we seek to answer to be dictated by the powerful few, or are they to be open to debate among citizens and scientists?

  • Joseph Weizenbaum

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The Cult of High Technology

A skeptical look at the selling of high tech.

  • Robert Howard

The First to Oppose

Atomic scientists against the arms race.

  • Alice Kimball Smith

The Piaget-Chomsky Debate

What future for the cognitive sciences?

  • Howard Gardner
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