Imagining the Future: Science and American Democracy

by Yuval Levin

From stem cell research to global warming, human cloning, evolution, and beyond, political debates about science have raged in recent years - and, to the chagrin of most observers, have increasingly fallen into the familiar categories of America's culture wars. In Imagining the Future: Science and American Democracy, Yuval Levin explores the complicated meanings of science and technology in American politics and finds that the science debates have...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594032092
• ISBN13: 9781594032097
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Encounter Books
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Enlightening and fascinating reading about the influence of science on politics - or the lack thereo

If there were a debate about whether water was wet, there would surely be those who would argue that it is not. "Imagining the Future: Science and American Democracy" takes a look at the relationship of science and politics, focusing on such issues as global warming, stem cell research, evolution, and more. Asking many poignant questions and offering ideas that may have not been obvious to the reader, author Yuval Levin has doubts that those on the left are truly the party of science, or that those on the right are entirely waging a war on science. Suggesting that maybe the science has little to do with it, "Imagining the Future" is enlightening and fascinating reading about the influence of science on politics - or the lack thereof.