The Best of The New Atlantis
10+ most popular The New Atlantis articles, as voted by our community.
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The New Atlantis on Digital Life
The Dead Internet To Come
Our chatbot future is a lonely place right out of a paranoid delusion.
The New Atlantis on Energy Transition
The Fantasy of Energy Independence
50 years ago, America was shocked by gas lines during the Arab oil embargo. The memory still haunts bad energy policy today.
The New Atlantis on History
Why were the atomic bombs dropped?
Making sense of revisionist accounts of Truman’s fateful decision
The New Atlantis on Space
Stuck on a middle seat to the Moon
How to keep the thrill alive once billionaires make space travel routine
The New Atlantis on Technology
How “post-rationalism” is reshaping tech culture
Tara Isabella Burton on Silicon Valley’s Endarkenment
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Cheese, curry, beer: We can thank our ancestors who put food scraps to creative use. What we’re leaving our children is garbage.
Unsustainable Alarmism — The New Atlantis
Covid has been compared to countless disasters, from wars to hurricanes to terrorist attacks. Sometimes, these comparisons aim to indict officials for failing to act more decisively to protect the…
How to Fix Social Media
America has been here before. The dawn of radio brought the chaos of privacy, censorship, and fake news. It’s time for legislation that revives the democratic wisdom of that era.
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