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Science and civilization

Appetite for Destruction

by Thomas Frank,

Apocalypses are lots of fun. They bring excitement to our otherwise boring lives. They smash through the smug façade of everyday authority. And it’s a blast to imagine the exact…

The corpse of science

by Jacob Bronowski,

Escape from modernism

by Frederick W. Turner,

Technology and the future of the imagination

Fearful of science

by Horace Freeland Judson,

What must we know?

by Edward Sandford Martin,

This unscientific age

by R.L. (Robert Luther) Duffus,

Is science a fashion of the times?

by Erwin Schroedinger,

Is history a fraud?

by J.B.S. (John Burdon Sanderson) Haldane,

Personal and otherwise

by Harper’s Staff,

Is western civilization in peril?

by Charles Austin Beard,

The decline of credulity

by Ben Ray Redman,