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Sixteen scholars on how to rethink a beleaguered institution.

Espionage at the Edge of Empire Espionage at the Edge of Empire By BENJAMIN BREEN by Gregory Afinogenov    In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it was commonplace to imagine a scientist as a lone toiler in a space of solitary reflection: Darwin on his walks on the grounds of Down House, say, or Caroline Herschel at her late night vigils beside her telescope. This changed, decisively, with the advent of “Big Science” in the early twentieth century. Historians began to re-envision science as an inherently collective endeavor, the work of teams, corporations, or states. “...