Tired of the Endless “Endless Frontier”
Science policy colleagues seem convinced that invoking Vannevar Bush and showcasing a bipartisan parade of former presidents’ support for science will restore public consensus. I doubt it.
How Science Got Lost
RCP8.5 and the Politics of Plausible Catastrophe I have been thinking about the recent RCP8.5-related conversation not as a climate denial story or an argument against climate action, but as a case study in how science can sometimes get lost. Not how science got lost because scientists are corrupt. Not how science got lost because […]
University Presidents Who Are Listening
They were not the headliners. I expected the familiar: arrive, deliver remarks, affirm institutional commitments, depart. They did all the familiar, but then they stayed. Three times, in three different settings, I found university presidents not just staying but listening. Not ceremonially, but substantively. Not as figureheads, but as participants in conversations that were, at […]
