Science & Technology

A selection of recent articles on this topic

The Death of Daniel Kahneman

J. Mark Mutz

Daniel Kahneman was a Nobel laureate in economics, the author of the international bestseller Thinking, Fast and…

How to Become a Low-Tech Family

Peco & Ruth Gaskovski

Is there a life beyond the screen? In 2010, Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows described what the internet…

The Rest as History

J. J. Kimche

The Sabbath is making a comeback. Across the West, that most singular and ancient of weekly phenomena—a…

The Common Sense of John Searle

Edward Feser

The twentieth-­century philosopher Wilfrid Sellars drew an influential distinction between “the manifest image,” which is the way…

Fossilized Faith

Aaron M. Renn

Christian Smith, a sociologist at Notre Dame, has a knack for turning academic research ­into books that…

The Mediocrity of AI

R. R. Reno

Will AI evolve and supersede human intelligence, ushering in the tyranny of machines? Is the economy careering…

Wistful Agnostics and True Believers

Bethel McGrew

With the death of the New Atheist industrial complex, a new variety of religion-friendly intellectual discourse has…

The Surrogacy Exploitation Crisis

Emma Waters

“It’s horrific, it’s disturbing, it’s damaging emotionally,” said Kayla Elliot, a young woman now fighting for custody…

The Era of AI Porn Is Here

Samuel D. James

Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT-owner OpenAI, recently announced that his software would soon allow users to…

Charles Murray Comes to God (ft. Charles Murray)

Mark Bauerlein

In the ​latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Charles Murray joins…

Beauty Rhymes with Death

Peter J. Leithart

Jan Zwicky is a Renaissance woman—a philosopher who has taught at Princeton and the University of Victoria,…

Dying from Compassion

George Weigel

The “Mother of Parliaments”—that’s the one in London—has been embroiled for months in a debate over “assisted…

Reforming STEM to Strengthen the Nation

Dorian Abbot

This article is adapted from a talk delivered at the 2025 National Conservatism Conference. Let the laser…

Sage Against the Machine 

Michael Hanby

When I was a first-year doctoral student in England, a venerable Cambridge don whom I will not…

Poetry vs. AI

Sam Buntz

As the purveyors of artificial intelligence attempt to replace literature with a deluge of slop, it is…