The New Atlantis

Founded in 2003, The New Atlantis is a quarterly journal that explores the social, ethical, political, and policy aspects of contemporary science and technology. Based in Washington, D.C., it is published by the Center for the Study of Technology and Society. The journal was established by the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a social conservative advocacy organization. Currently, it is edited by Ari Schulman, who succeeded co-founders Eric Cohen and Adam Keiper. The journal's title is inspired by Francis Bacon’s utopian work, New Atlantis, which the editorial team describes as a "fable of a society grappling with the benefits and challenges posed by advanced science and technology." In the first issue, the editorial highlighted the journal's purpose: to guide readers away from the extremes of excitement and fear often associated with new technologies. It aims to assist in discerning when it is wise to utilize our technological capabilities and when it may be necessary to limit such power to protect what is truly valuable. Adam Keiper, writing for National Review, characterized The New Atlantis as reflecting a "distinctly American and conservative perspective on the advantages and challenges of modern science and technology." Contributors to The New Atlantis, along with bioethicists in other publications, have noted its social conservative viewpoint, often intertwined with religious considerations.

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You Are Not an Ape-Brained Meat Sack

1 month ago | thenewatlantis.com | Spencer Klavan

Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version On November 6, 2024, the day after Donald Trump’s election victory, “the term ‘darkest timeline’ trended in Google searches, and several physicists posted musings on social media about whether we were actually in it.” So wrote George Musser in Scientific American a few days later. Maybe the multiverse is real, and we all just drew the short straw.
Are We Under-Bubbled?

1 month ago | thenewatlantis.com | Byrne Hobart |Tobias A. Huber

Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version For Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber, partners at the tech investment firm Anomaly, a financial bubble is the closest that human beings can get to spooky action at a distance. Their provocatively titled new book Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation aims to make the case that the visionary cascades, which almost always end in collapse, are on balance actually good.
How Virologists Lost the Gain-of-Function Debate

1 month ago | thenewatlantis.com | M. Anthony Mills |Zach Graves |Steven Menashi

Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version Shortly after the outbreak of the Covid pandemic in early 2020, rumors started to circulate that the virus that triggered it came from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. This story was quickly rejected by expert institutions and mainstream media outlets as an empirically baseless and even racist conspiracy theory — a verdict propagated through social media by fact checkers who deemed such claims to be misinformation.
If the Reagan Airport crash was “waiting to happen,” why didn’t anyone stop it?

2 months ago | thenewatlantis.com | Ari N. Schulman

Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version If you study air and space disasters, you will notice a recurring pattern: there are often well-placed observers who know almost immediately what went wrong. Sometimes those observers had even been warning that a disaster exactly like that was coming — that it was just a matter of time.
Yuval Levin: The deeper question raised by the NIH grant overhaul

2 months ago | thenewatlantis.com | Yuval Levin |M. Anthony Mills

Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version Last week, in a classic Friday evening news dump, the Trump administration set off one of those frantic controversies that seem to be our fate for the next few years. A tweet from the official X account of the National Institutes of Health declared:The tweet was backed up by a more formal memo justifying the new policy on the grounds that private foundations insist on much lower overhead rates in their grants to universities than the government does.
So You’ve Decided To Carry Your Brain Around

Dec 9, 2024 | thenewatlantis.com | Christine Rosen |John Fechtel |Brad East |Matthew B. Crawford

Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version If the worry during the Enlightenment, as mathematician Isaac Milner wrote in 1794, was that ‘the great and high’ have ‘forgotten that they have souls,’ then today the worry is that many of us have forgotten that we have bodies.” So writes Christine Rosen, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and senior editor of this journal, in her new book, The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World.
Make Suburbia Weird

Dec 9, 2024 | thenewatlantis.com | Clare Coffey |Joel Kotkin |Joseph Lawler

Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version Packing up my grandparents’ suburban house this summer, I was confronted with an unsettling and alien phenomenon: a place I loved, that I considered my own, that I would have wanted to keep — but where I could not imagine living. Yet this situation is considered normal, even ideal, in American life.
The New Control Society

Dec 9, 2024 | thenewatlantis.com | Jon Askonas

Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version Let me tell you two stories about the Internet. The first story is so familiar it hardly warrants retelling. It goes like this. The Internet is breaking the old powers of the state, the media, the church, and every other institution. It is even breaking society itself. By subjecting their helpless users to ever more potent algorithms to boost engagement, powerful platforms distort reality and disrupt our politics.
‘A Blatant Situation’ — New leaks on Canada's failing MAID safeguards

Nov 11, 2024 | thenewatlantis.com | Alexander Raikin

Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version For years, there have been clear signals that euthanasia providers in Canada may be breaking the law and getting away with it. That is the finding of the officials who are responsible for monitoring euthanasia deaths to ensure compliance in the province of Ontario.
Why We Don’t Build — The New Atlantis

Oct 7, 2024 | thenewatlantis.com | Joseph Lawler |Thomas Hochman |Aidan Mackenzie |Michael Catanzaro

What went wrong and what it would take to start building again Massachusetts is one of the richest states in the country — because it’s pricing out its own middle class. Why did the state stop building enough to house them? “Time to build” is a great idea. But it’s not clear that liberals or conservatives really want it.