Foreign Affairs
January, 1969
Can Scientific Research and technology help mankind create a more decent society? I think so. To be sure, at the end of a year that has seen two assassinations, the invasion of Czechoslovakia, the start of a new round in the arms race and the violence of the Democratic Convention in Chicago, this conclusion doesn't come easily. Some of the world's most thoughtful and humanistic observers--among them, Archibald MacLeish, Jean-Paul Sartre and Jacques Barzun--believe that science will ultimately be...
