What’s Behind the U.S. War on Science?
President Biden’s administration has promised to reinsert science into government decision-making. An anthropologist looks to Finland to argue that solutions must go far beyond reversing Trump’s policies.
Vincent Ialenti
Vincent Ialenti is a MacArthur postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. His new book, Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now, is an anthropological exploration of how Finland’s nuclear waste experts grappled with distant future societies, bodies, and ecologies. Ialenti’s research has been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. Alongside his academic publications, he has written for NPR, Forbes, BBC, SAPIENS, Nautilus, and other public outlets. Ialenti holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Cornell University. Follow him on Twitter @vincent_ialenti.
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Trump’s Slogan: More About the “Make” Than the “Great”
The promise of concrete action is appealing to a populace that feels like it’s stagnating. But making without thinking is a brutish strategy.