Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal.

Joining me on the show today is James Miggs. Jim is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute,

a valued contributing editor at City Journal. He co-hosts the How Do We Fix It Podcast?

And he writes the tech commentary column for commentary. He's the former editor of popular mechanics and is writing on

energy, environmental policy, culture, and other topics has appeared in the Wall Street Journal,

Slate, the New York Times, and other publications, in addition to City Journal. Today, we're going

to discuss his recent essay, Un-Scientific American.

It appears in City Journal's Spring issue and examines the decline of science journalism.

So, Jim, thanks very much for coming on.

Oh, it's great to be here, Brian.

So, you know, Scientific Americans are a real striking test case of the decline of science journalism.

You have to say it.

You know, this publication goes back to mid-19th century when it was founded,

and it's published rigorous reporting from great scientific minds over the years.

I think it's counted upward of 200 Nobel

Prize winners among its contributors. You know, it's encouraged writers to challenge established

viewpoints over the years. But, you know, as you recount in the piece, there has been a shift in Scientific American

and other major scientific outlets aimed at broad audiences.

These aren't specialist journals, you know, National Geographic, Smithsonian.

They began to shift in their content to align more carefully with

progressive views.

So I wonder, you know, if you could describe when this shift in coverage began and how it's

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