The New Atlantis

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

Should Your Kids Be Born in a Pod? • The shared dream of techno-optimizers, feminist liberators, and the kindly grandpa from Jurassic Park is getting closer to reality.

ZONING ALONE • A hundred-year-old experiment in telling people what to build and where is part of why Americans have become so isolated. The Supreme Court may soon bring it to an end — and help bring back real neighborhoods.

Why I Do Not Have AC

Is There Life on Mars, Pennsylvania?

The Pro-Human AI Declaration • In March, a coalition of interest groups and individuals, organized by the Future of Life Institute, issued the following statement. It is endorsed by The New Atlantis.

You Say You Want a Revolution • Dialogues: Why populists believe Trump’s chaos will revitalize American science — and how it’s going so far

‘To me it’s stupid to just indiscriminately cut science. . . . But it was also pretty stupid to just keep pouring money into science’

‘It’s a form of apocalypticism applied to science policy’

‘Pessimism about our institutions has fueled optimism about disruption’

‘A winning strategy for shifting the culture and quality’ of infertility treatment