“The Specter of Social Engineering: Scientism and its Critics in the Long 1950s” a talk by Andrew Jewett, Harvard University

Andrew Jewett’s talk traces fears about science’s cultural impact among intellectual and political leaders and ordinary citizens in postwar America. Jewett is the author of Science, Democracy, and the American University: From the Civil War to the Cold War (2012).

A copy of his paper can be found here.