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Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America

New Books in the History of Science

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Science and Anti-Racism in the Civil Rights Movement

Andy Cevallos: It's been like two months since my book came out. I'm really committed to the idea that science has changed the conditions of argumentation for everyone. The piece I'm pulling out right now is a history of the environmental justice movement as it's coming together, especially in the 1980s and 1990s. He says he wants to see how those who were attacking these structures of discrimination are mobilizing scientific resources too.

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