Louise Liebeskind

Aug 14, 2024 | thenewatlantis.com | Louise Liebeskind |Ari N. Schulman |M. Anthony Mills

Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version “The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason.” We were doomed. All we could do was crash resources into space programs and get a few thousand of our best and brightest into orbit before a hard rain of meteors destroyed all life on the surface of the Earth.

Oct 4, 2023 | thenewatlantis.com | Louise Liebeskind |Stephen A. McKnight |Sam Kahn |Patrick J. Deneen

Francis Bacon has been charged with robbing science of its innocence. But what if we’ve all been reading him wrong? Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version Francis Bacon is known, above all, for conceiving of a great and terrible human project: the conquest of nature for “the relief of man’s estate.” This project, still ongoing, has its champions.

Oct 4, 2023 | thenewatlantis.com | Ari N. Schulman |Louise Liebeskind |Eric Cohen

Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version This year The New Atlantis marks a major milestone: twenty years of publishing since our launch in 2003. That is a remarkable run for any magazine. Huge outlets said to define entire new media paradigms have risen and fallen since 2003. Their paradigms have come and gone too.

Jul 3, 2023 | thenewatlantis.com | Louise Liebeskind

Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version Sam Altman sits slightly slouched in his chair, taking the interviewer’s questions like punches in the face. He looks both terribly young and deeply tired, with his floppy hair and nervous expression. ABC’s Rebecca Jarvis asks him who should be responsible for putting guardrails on ChatGPT, the powerful chatbot that his company OpenAI recently unveiled, to keep society safe. “Society should,” he answers. “Society as a whole?