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It’s easy enough to dismiss Fukuyama as an out-of-touch academic. But as a member of the President’s Council of Bioethics, he has already made good on the chance to impose his curious worldview on scientists. This summer, he voted for a ban on research cloning and thereby blocked those who are trying to cure disease using this powerful tool. The scientific advances that could help save lives have already been subjugated to the narrow ideology of a political philosopher...
Scientists, who are often wary of dirtying their hands in political mud fights, must face up to the threat academics like Fukuyama pose to free inquiry and medical advances. And that’s where Student Pugwash comes in. The annual national Student Pugwash USA conference begins today in Washington and one of the topics on the agenda is scientific research and national security. It should be an eye-opening experience. According to Huang, two participants from Harvard are going to the conference. Next year, I hope more students—and more science concentrators—can go. Because...
...help from Ed Gabel and Missy Adams, describes what the soldier of 2025 will be wearing (and wait until you hear about rations). For those who think that peace in the Middle East will end the region's turmoil, Robin Wright has a more complicated story to tell. Francis Fukuyama, author of The End of History, offers a surprising answer to his question, "Will Socialism Make a Comeback?" Pico Iyer has an idiosyncratic take on whether globalization is bringing us together or splitting us apart. And, finally, Caleb Carr gives us Part Four of his compelling novella about the future...
HOFFMAN: The past decade has brought a spate of books sounding the death knell for a host of subjects. Francis Fukuyama served up The End of History and David Lindley The End of Physics. But your more sweeping work The End of Science (1997) attracted a lot more attention and controversy--and with good reason. The idea that science may have had its run--that we've discovered all we can realistically expect to discover and that anything we come up with in the future will be pretty much small-bore stuff--left people either intrigued or outraged. With today...