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Ike's Military-Industrial Complex, Six Decades Later

As Eisenhower predicted, there is no balance left, as U.S. policy is reduced to who we threaten, bomb, or occupy next.

by James P. Pinkerton via The American Conservative on January 15, 2020

A UFO in front of hills

More UFOs Than Ever Before

What explains the apparently sudden spike in intergalactic traffic after WWII? If Cold War anxieties are to blame, why have sightings persisted?

by Rich Cohen via The Paris Review on August 26, 2019

Inventing the Environment

A review of two new books on the postwar origins of “the Environment.”

by Carolyn Taratko via Los Angeles Review of Books on August 15, 2019

Poppy Northcutt.

Inside Apollo Mission Control, From the Eyes of the First Woman on the Job

Poppy Northcutt planned the vital flight trajectories that got astronauts home from their missions to the moon.

by Erin Blakemore via National Geographic on July 18, 2019

Science’s Freedom Fighters

Why do Americans get so worked up by the basic assertion that all science is political?

by W. Patrick McCray via Los Angeles Review of Books on November 18, 2018

Neil Armstrong and the American flag on the moon.

Twilight of Empire

Why the 1969 moon landing signaled the end of the massive American empire of the 20th century.

by Daniel Immerwahr via Modern American History on January 22, 2018

From Boy Geniuses to Mad Scientists

How Americans got so weird about science.

by Lisa Hix via Collectors Weekly on August 4, 2017

Paul Rand’s illustration for El Producto Cigars of a snowman smoking.

Christmas at Midcentury, When Aluminum Trees Replaced Victorian Evergreens

A new book by Sarah Archer explores the influence of the Space Race and Cold War on America's midcentury Christmas celebrations.

by Allison C. Meier via Hyperallergic on December 21, 2016

Santa in a rocket sleigh.

A Wonderful Life

How postwar Christmas embraced spaceships, nukes, and cellophane.

by Sarah Archer, Lisa Hix via Collectors Weekly on December 15, 2016

Rocket launch

Is a Mission to Mars Morally Defensible Given Today’s Real Needs?

Elon Musk and the rise of Silicon Valley’s strange trickle-down science.

by Andrew Russell, Lee Vinsel via Aeon on December 1, 2016

Robert Rauschenberg and Billy Klüver collaborating on an art project

“God Help American Science”: Engineering Theatre and Spectacle

When an event promises you will "hear the body broadcast its sounds," "see without light," and "see dancers float on air,” there’s bound to be disappointment.

by W. Patrick McCray via W. Patrick McCray on September 7, 2016

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