Essays
Long-form writing on power, innovation, history and the ideas that shape our world.
Biopreparat & The Soviet Biowar Mindset
In the cold sterility of Soviet laboratories from the 1950s through the late 1980s, a hidden war festered. Its front lines weren’t defined by trenches or missiles, but by microscopes, Petri dishes.
Endless Frontier, Edited Forward
The most cited document in the history of American science policy is also the one we have most reliably misread.
Sky Lords: Technocracy, Cloud Seeding, and the Quiet Coup Over Nature
The government had decided that weather — the last great uncontrollable — was now fair game for precision management. The sky, once the realm of gods and poets, had become another spreadsheet in a Whitehall office.
"To understand the future, we must first understand the ideas that made the present possible."
EDO