John Davidson

1 month ago | asianamericans.einnews.com | Helen Raleigh |Shawn Fleetwood |John Davidson |Beth Brelje

Rep. Riley Moore, R-W.Va., has introduced the “Stop CCP VISAs Act,” a bill aimed at preventing all Chinese nationals from obtaining student visas. Moore argues that this legislation is necessary to stop the Chinese Communist Party from exploiting U.S. visa programs “to spy on our military, steal our intellectual property, and threaten national security.” However, this measure could ultimately have the opposite effect, potentially inflicting more damage on U.S. national security than it prevents.

Jan 24, 2025 | thespectator.com | Bryan Appleyard |Cressida Bonas |John Davidson |Philip Womack

In Paris in 1740 the hangman publicly burned his most famous book. In England some of the best and brightest — Alexander Pope, Henry Fielding, Bishop George Berkeley, Jonathan Swift and John Wesley — lined up to destroy his reputation. The book was 1714’s The Fable of the Bees and the author was Sir Bernard Mandeville, popularly known as the Man-Devil.

Jan 24, 2025 | thespectator.com | John Davidson |Cressida Bonas |John Connolly |Michael Gove

After generations of treating the universe as mere matter to be bent to our will, it seemed inevitable that the future of humanity would be to merge with machines. Billionaires and tech utopians now predict a near future in which the human mind itself might be “downloaded” or transferred into a digital realm, allowing us to overcome death itself by slipping the bonds of our physical existence altogether.

Jan 24, 2025 | thespectator.com | Mary Wakefield |Cressida Bonas |John Connolly |John Davidson

At the beginning of the spring term of my second year at university, a French boy called Xavier looked up from where he was sitting, on the floor of my friend’s flat, and announced that his New Year’s resolution was to give up fantasizing. Xav was deep in unrequited love with my friend so we assumed at first that he was simply through with pining, but that was not quite what he meant.

Jan 24, 2025 | thespectator.com | John Connolly |Cressida Bonas |Mary Wakefield |John Davidson

Before he agrees to be interviewed, He Jiankui has one request: that he is introduced as a “gene-editing pioneer.” This may come across as grandiose, but it is also indisputable. No one else in history, after all, can say they have created genetically edited human beings. In 2018, He dropped the mother of all scientific bombs when he announced that he had used CRISPR, a gene-editing technique, to alter the DNA of two babies.