| CARVIEW |
Select Language
HTTP/2 301
content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length: 0
date: Sat, 17 Jan 2026 19:47:07 GMT
server: Apache
x-powered-by: PHP/7.3.18
pragma: no-cache
expires: Sat, 17 Jan 2026 20:47:07 GMT
cache-control: max-age=3600
x-redirect-by: redirection
set-cookie: PHPSESSID=1r5onoo7rkafgedavf65t0kuka; expires=Tue, 15-Jan-2036 19:47:07 GMT; Max-Age=315360000; path=/; HttpOnly
x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
location: /
x-cache: Miss from cloudfront
via: 1.1 68e72750e374cfb36e9873adf2ff3f74.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-amz-cf-pop: BOM78-P4
x-amz-cf-id: 4eyqy9NIY0O5eDZk9VEhvW553qznVQp7qdHbpFxc3n-mRXqPDhKBrg==
HTTP/2 200
content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length: 28124
date: Sat, 17 Jan 2026 19:47:07 GMT
server: Apache
x-powered-by: PHP/7.3.18
expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
cache-control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
pragma: no-cache
link: ; rel="alternate"; type="application/json", Home — The New Atlantis
Reflections on the revolution in Bethesda
In the 2020s, the weird soul of placeless America is being born on Discord servers.
The planners dreamed of gleaming cities. Instead they brought three generations of hollowed-out downtowns and flight to the suburbs.
RFK, Jr. promised to overhaul the food system. Instead he’s tinkering with food dyes.
The new doped Olympics are not about what we can do but what tech titans can do to us.
Paul Kingsnorth’s critique of technologized modernity is frustratingly broad. That doesn’t mean he’s wrong.
Broke, raving, and living out of his van, for years Jack Kevorkian turned away from his first love — experiments with death — to a side quest: bringing Jesus Christ to the big screen.
Baseball’s new automated ump means there’s no one left to blame for bad calls.
How generations of meddlesome public health campaigns changed everyday life — and made life twice as long as it used to be
If you think the power system must run itself by now, you’re wrong. Behind every nicely toasted bagel is a vast network of generators, transformers, computers, wires — and, yes, people in backrooms sweating to make sure the juice flows exactly where, and when, it needs to go. What could possibly go wrong?
Current Issue
No. 83
Winter 2026
The Folly of Golden Dome
Trump’s vaunted missile defense system is a plan for America’s retreat and defeat.
American Diner Gothic
The Bills That Destroyed Urban America
MAHA Cedes the Obesity War to Ozempic
Where’s the Thrill in the Enhanced Games?
The Cassandra of ‘The Machine’
Doctor Death’s Messiah
You Can’t Work the Robo-Ref
Special Series
The Lonely Neighborhood
A series by Joseph Lawler about the hidden federal policies that have made our built environment less human-scaled, less hospitable, less lovely, and less conducive to living well together
Americans are living ever more isolated lives. We get married later, start families later, have fewer children, and report more loneliness than ever before. Everyone suspects that new technology has something to do with this. But what if we’re also suffering from the failure of a very old technology — housing?
This essay series features original reporting by Joseph Lawler.
Essay 1: How the Government Built the American Dream House
Fall 2025
What Comes After Gender Affirmation?
Making transition the first-line treatment for children was a mistake, many health agencies now say. A growing group of psychologists wants to restore the therapeutic relationship.
Why We Are Better Off Than a Century Ago
Our ancestors built grand public systems to conquer hunger, thirst, darkness, and squalor. That progress can be lost if we forget it.
So You’ve Decided to Save Your Kids from Tech
Two new books explain how family life got eaten by digital life — and how to get it back.
The AI Genetics Revolution Is Coming
We’re worrying about the wrong arms race with China.
An Ozempic in Every Lunch Box
Big Pharma and MAHA are fighting over how to treat childhood obesity. In the meantime, what do we tell our kids?
The Party of Science Is Over
Democrats became so caught up appealing to experts that they forgot to appeal to voters.
How Bill McKibben Lost the Plot
A new book by the high priest of the climate movement reads like the end of an era.
Two Hundred Years to Flatten the Curve
AI Ethics Is Simpler Than You Think
We don’t need to figure out the meaning of life to get AI right, because it’s actually a limited tool.
Summer 2025: Debating “The Great Tech–Family Alliance”
Look at what technologists do, not what they say
A new alliance between tech and the family?
How Silicon Valley can prove it is pro-family
A new alliance between tech and the family?
We need a pro-family state, not an anti-state family
A new alliance between tech and the family?
Families are not about moving fast and breaking things
A new alliance between tech and the family?
How Silicon Valley can prove it is pro-family
A new alliance between tech and the family?
We need a pro-family state, not an anti-state family
A new alliance between tech and the family?
Families are not about moving fast and breaking things
A new alliance between tech and the family?
How the System Works
Two Hundred Years to Flatten the Curve
How generations of meddlesome public health campaigns changed everyday life — and made life twice as long as it used to be
We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It
Introducing “How the System Works,” a series on the hidden mechanisms that support modern life
What Keeps the Lights On
If you think the power system must run itself by now, you’re wrong. Behind every nicely toasted bagel is a vast network of generators, transformers, computers, wires — and, yes, people in backrooms sweating to make sure the juice flows exactly where, and when, it needs to go. What could possibly go wrong?
Why We Are Better Off Than a Century Ago
Our ancestors built grand public systems to conquer hunger, thirst, darkness, and squalor. That progress can be lost if we forget it.
We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It
Introducing “How the System Works,” a series on the hidden mechanisms that support modern life
What Keeps the Lights On
Why We Are Better Off Than a Century Ago
Our ancestors built grand public systems to conquer hunger, thirst, darkness, and squalor. That progress can be lost if we forget it.
More from Summer 2025
Eat Your AI Slop or China Wins
The new cold war means a race with China over AI, biotech, and more. This poses a hard dilemma: win by embracing technologies that make us more like our enemy — or protect ourselves from tech dehumanization but become subjects to a totalitarian menace.
What’s the Difference Between Hearing Aids and Puberty Blockers?
“We aren’t defective, just different” was the 1990s rallying cry of deaf activists who rejected medical fixes. Why have transgender activists argued that only medical tech can make them who they really are?
The Doctor as Priest
Why anesthesiologists need more than reason to talk patients out of the fear of going under
The Real City of the Future
From megastructures in the Arabian Desert to urban decay close to home, we are pulled between utopian and dystopian visions of the modern city. Sci-fi novelist William Gibson offers a more likely scenario.
Does Marriage Have a Future?
From the Industrial Revolution to the pill to AI girlfriends, technology is unbundling what used to be marriage’s package deal.
The New NIH Director Has His Work Cut Out For Him
Science funding badly needs reform. Jay Bhattacharya could be the man for the job — but Trump may have blown up his chance.
An Essay in Three Parts
Will AI Be Alive?
What lies ahead and how to face it well
Gaining Situational Awareness About the Coming Artificial General Intelligence
How to see clearly what lies ahead
AI Will Seem to Be Alive
How to judge prudently what kinds of beings they will be
We Must Steward, Not Subjugate Nor Worship AI
How to act rightly in response
Gaining Situational Awareness About the Coming Artificial General Intelligence
How to see clearly what lies ahead
AI Will Seem to Be Alive
How to judge prudently what kinds of beings they will be
We Must Steward, Not Subjugate Nor Worship AI
How to act rightly in response