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Brave new volume.(books, arts & manners)(Imagining the Future: Science and American Democracy)(In the Shadow of Progress: Being Human in the Age of Technology)(Book review)

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Imagining the Future: Science and American Democracy, by Yuval Levin (Encounter, 200 pp., $21.95)

In the Shadow of Progress: Being Human in the Age of Technology, by Eric Cohen (Encounter, 180 pp., $21.95)

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EVERYTHING is political today, and science is no exception. The Left is accused of pushing an ethics-be-damned "science uber alles"; traditionalists who dare to express even the most reasonable concerns about the awesome powers of biotechnology are dismissed as harbingers of a new Dark Age of superstition. Seeking to pour the water of cool reason on these fires comes a relatively new national voice, Yuval Levin, whose ...

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