Global Affairs

Self-Driving Cars: How Soon Is Soon Enough?

Jack Barkenbus

Some observers tout autonomous (self-driving) vehicles by claiming that a computer is “simply a better driver than a human,” as a recent Time magazine article put it. This is not true now… Read More
Philosopher’s Corner: What Is Science in the National Interest?

J. Britt Holbrook

It all began in the middle of the fourth century BCE. Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics established a hierarchy of goods that laid the foundation for today’s science policy debates. A good pursued for… Read More

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