It is only upon rereading it that I am struck by Asimov’s impatience with his fellow human beings. This simmering impatience burst into the open in “The Cult of Ignorance,” an essay Asimov ...

Is Earthrise a product of science or a work of art? Isaac Asimov, the Russian-born chemist and science-fiction colossus (1920–92), had an answer: the two are, in fact, the same. Asimov spent ...