The Myth Of True Social Knowledge

City Journal has an excerpt from Manzi's forthcoming book. He focuses on the limits of social science:

At the moment, it is certain that we do not have anything remotelyapproaching a scientific understanding of human society. And themethods of experimental social science are not close to providing onewithin the foreseeable future. Science may someday allow us to predicthuman behavior comprehensively and reliably. Until then, we need tokeep stumbling forward with trial-and-error learning as...