What Attacks on Science Get Wrong

Andrew Jewett in The Chronicle of Higher Education: Back in 2013, another in a long line of tussles over scientism broke out. Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of The New Republic, told humanities majors at a Brandeis University graduation ceremony that they represented “the resistance” in a society dominated by “the twin imperialisms of science and technology.” Wieseltier sounded all … Continue reading What Attacks on Science Get Wrong