Alan Jacobs

Mar 25, 2024 | thenewatlantis.com | Christine Rosen |Alan Jacobs |Matthew Crawford |TAYLOR DOTSON

Home security cameras are booming in an era of rising crime and declining trust. But they’re driving neighbors further apart.

Oct 4, 2023 | thenewatlantis.com | John Fechtel |Alan Jacobs |Stefan Beck |Brad East

Apple’s friction eliminators want to get under your skin. Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version When Apple announced this summer that Vision Pro, its new virtual reality goggles, will be available for purchase in early 2024, the reaction was mixed. Some gawked at the price tag of $3,499. Others derided Apple for its lonely vision of the future. Yet many who have gotten an early try of the device have been blown away.

Jul 3, 2023 | thenewatlantis.com | Alan Jacobs |Matthew B. Crawford |Evan Selinger |Roger Scruton

Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version It is the Year of Our Lord 1672, and you are an elderly Londoner. At your birth Queen Elizabeth sat on the throne, but your first memories come from King James’s time. Your grandchildren rejoice in the re-opening of the theaters of the city — a notable consequence of the Restoration of the monarchy after the collapse of Cromwell’s Protectorate.