The New Atlantis is a quarterly journal about the social, ethical, and political dimensions of modern science and technology. Since its founding in 2003, the journal has been at the center of debates about how to govern science and how to live well and wisely with technological change.
The New Atlantis
How Virologists Lost the Gain-of-Function Debate • For years, scientists kept the debate about risky virus research among themselves. Then Covid happened. As President Trump prepares to crack down on virology research, the expert community must face up to its own failures.
Stop Hacking Humans • From cradle to grave, surrogacy to smartphones to gender surgery to euthanasia, Americans are using technology to shortcut human nature — and shortchange ourselves. Here is a new agenda for turning technology away from hacking humans and toward healing them.
The Deeper Question Raised by the NIH Grant Overhaul
A New Plan to Make the Mars Dream a Reality
PART 2 A Spring in Every Kitchen
Will AI Be Alive?
If the Reagan Airport Crash Was “Waiting to Happen,” Why Didn’t Anyone Stop It?
Are We Under-Bubbled?
You Are Not an Ape-Brained Meat Sack
Messages in a Bottle • News from THE NEW ATLANTIS