Oscar Schwartz

A fetus inside of an artistic depiction of an artificial womb

On the History of the Artificial Womb

Will outside-the-womb gestation, increasingly viable for animal embryos, lead to a feminist utopia? Or to something like Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World?

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Politics & History

How Noah Webster Invented the Word Immigration

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The History of Outlawing Abortion in America

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The Turkish Origins of the “Deep State”

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On the History of the Artificial Womb

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