Devorah Goldman

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Devorah Goldman is a fellow in EPPC’s Program in Bioethics, Technology and Human Flourishing. She is the chief contributor to Etzem–a column on bioethics, medical policy, religion, and culture published by Mosaic magazine.

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Devorah Goldman is a fellow in EPPC’s Program in Bioethics, Technology and Human Flourishing. She is the chief contributor to Etzem–a column on bioethics, medical policy, religion, and culture published by Mosaic magazine.

She is also the director and editorial mentor of the Krauthammer Fellowship—a year-long program for aspiring writers run by Tikvah—as well as a contributing editor at The Public Discourse and Mosaic magazines. She runs a Substack newsletter, Side Effects, which focuses on medicine, technology, and society.

Ms. Goldman’s writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg BNA, National Affairs, The New Atlantis, and other publications. She previously worked as a legislative staffer in the U.S. Senate and an editor at National Affairs.

Ms. Goldman has also helped spearhead several initiatives at Tikvah. These include the creation of a curriculum on the role of the Hebrew Bible in American history, which is currently being used as part of a two-year course offered by over 20 Jewish day schools. With assistance from the Blackstone Legal Fellowship and the Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty, Ms. Goldman founded and led Tikvah’s summer legal fellowship, which launched in May 2021.

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The Conspiracists

Devorah Goldman

This moment, among other things, may call for something as banal as looking around, embracing and underscoring the figures and images that capture what is enduringly good about normal American life.

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Public Discourse / April 16, 2024

It’s “Time to Think” about the Irreversible Damage of Shoddy Sciences: A Review of Hannah…

Devorah Goldman

Barnes repeatedly emphasizes the many parents or clinic employees who had tried to sound the alarm but whose warnings were ignored by clinic authorities.

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Public Discourse / January 30, 2024

The Enduring Deceptions of the Dutch Protocol

Devorah Goldman

Puberty as disease and the creation of the “sexless adult”

Side Effects / September 8, 2023

How Gender Activists Defaced Pediatric Medicine: An Interview with Miriam Grossman, MD

Devorah Goldman

We want people, especially young people, to have a stable sense of identity.

Public Discourse / August 17, 2023

A World That Has Disappeared

Devorah Goldman

How America’s medical system saved—and ultimately failed—David Landy

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Substack / April 3, 2023

Do Transgender Youth Benefit from Gender-Affirming Hormones? Part II

Devorah Goldman

The New England Journal of Medicine raises vital questions about its own published research

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Substack / February 15, 2023

The Long-Term Harms of Anonymous Sperm Donation

Devorah Goldman

Medical professionals have willingly abetted the conception of human beings in circumstances marked by deceit.

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Public Discourse / January 30, 2023

The Rise of the Hospitalist

Devorah Goldman

Who does your doctor work for?

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Side Effects / November 17, 2022

The Advice Column of Expressive Individualism

Devorah Goldman

The expressive individualists promised a world in which moral conventions could be cast off in favor of something more beautiful, purposeful, passionate, and true. Instead, we have been left with an aimless, bloodless, timid culture.

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Public Discourse / November 15, 2022

The Clash Between Technocracy and Religion

Devorah Goldman

Bureaucratic institutions apply a patina of objective, empirical rigor over human judgements that are fundamentally subjective and too often anti-religious.

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Mosaic Magazine / November 2, 2022

Electronic Health Records, Inflation, and Private Medicine

Devorah Goldman

These made‐​to‐​order, government‐​approved systems — which were not sought after by either doctors or the patient community — have failed in egregious ways.

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Cato Institute / July 13, 2022

The Real Meaning of the Anti-Antiracism Protest at Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Devorah Goldman

A small pilot program reflects an alarming trend in America’s medical institutions.

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Substack / June 9, 2022

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