Eric Cohen
Adjunct Fellow
Program: Bioethics and American Democracy / Science, Technology, and Society
Eric Cohen is an Adjunct Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, as well as a member of EPPC’s board of directors.
Mr. Cohen is the executive director of the Tikvah Fund and the publisher of the Jewish Review of Books and of Jewish Ideas Daily. He is also editor-at-large of The New Atlantis, EPPC’s quarterly journal about the ethical, political, and social implications of modern science and technology, having served as editor of the journal from its founding until February 2007. His articles and essays have been published in numerous academic and popular journals, magazines, and newspapers.
He is the author of In the Shadow of Progress: Being Human in the Age of Technology (2008) and co-editor (with William Kristol) of The Future is Now: America Confronts the New Genetics (2002). He was previously managing editor of The Public Interest and served as a senior consultant to the President’s Council on Bioethics. He was also a Phillips Foundation Fellow (2001) and a Fulbright Scholar (2000).
PUBLICATIONS
The Jewish Schools of the Future
Published in Mosaic on August 3, 2020
The American Soul in a Time of Plague
Published in National Affairs - Summer 2020 issue on June 22, 2020
The Message from Jerusalem
Published in Mosaic on January 6, 2020
A Crisis of Liberalism?
Published in The Weekly Standard on March 15, 2018
Jewish Conservatism: A Manifesto
Published in Commentary Magazine on April 7, 2017
The Spirit of Jewish Conservatism
Published in Mosaic on April 6, 2015
For the Love of the Game
Published in New Republic on March 26, 2008
The Ends of Science
Published in First Things (November 2006) on November 12, 2006
Unthinkable Thoughts
Published in Weekly Standard, Vol. 012 No. 23 on February 17, 2007
In Whose Image Shall We Die?
Published in The New Atlantis, Winter 2007 on January 1, 2007
Stem the Tide
Published in The Weekly Standard on July 24, 2006
Stem Cells Without Moral Corruption
Published in Washington Post on July 6, 2006
Stem-Cell Sense
Published in National Review Online on May 25, 2006
Celling Spin
Published in National Review Online on May 3, 2006
Biotechnology and the Spirit of Capitalism
Published in The New Atlantis, Spring 2006 on May 1, 2006
Embryonic Problems
Published in National Review Online on March 20, 2006
The Many Faces of Technology
Published in The Weekly Standard on February 3, 2006
Conservative Bioethics and the Search for Wisdom
Published in Hastings Center Report (Jan - Feb 2006) Vol. 36 No. 1 on February 2, 2006
Debating Human Enhancement
Published in Reason Online on January 2, 2006
Orphans by Design
Published in First Things on December 1, 2005
Older & Wiser?
Published in The Weekly Standard, Volume 011, Issue 01 on September 26, 2005
Frist’s Stem Cell Capitulation
Published in Weekly Standard, Volume 010, Issue 44 on August 8, 2005
The Real Meaning of Genetics
Published in The New Atlantis, Number 9, Summer 2005, pp. 29-41. on July 11, 2005
Unorthodox Endorsement
Published in National Review Online on May 24, 2005
Go Forth and Replicate
Published in The Weekly Standard, Volume 010, Issue 35 on May 23, 2005
A Jewish-Catholic Bioethics?
Published in First Things, June/July 2005, No. 154 on May 18, 2005
Where Have All The Children Gone?
Published in The Public Interest, Number 159, Spring 2005, pp. 170-174. on May 2, 2005
What Living Wills Won’t Do
Published in Weekly Standard, Volume 010, Issue 29 on April 18, 2005
How Liberalism Failed Terri Schiavo
Published in The Weekly Standard, Volume 010, Issue 27 on April 4, 2005
The Tragedy of Equality
Published in The New Atlantis, Number 7, Fall 2004/Winter 2005, pp. 101-109. on January 5, 2005
The Party of Cloning
Published in The Weekly Standard, 08/30/2004, Volume 009, Issue 47 on August 22, 2004
Sen. Kerry’s Stem-Cell Fairy Tales
Published in Los Angeles Times on August 22, 2004
The Conservative Understanding of America’s Future
Published in The New York Times, 17 July 2004 on July 17, 2004
Kerry’s Zealotry
Published in The Weekly Standard, Volume 009, Issue 41 on July 5, 2004
The Politics and Realities of Medicare
Published in The Public Interest, Issue #156 (Summer 2004). on June 23, 2004
Sports World Rocked By Steroid Scandals
Published in Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty on June 22, 2004
President Bush’s Stem Cell Policy is Appropriate
Published in USA Today on June 8, 2004
Stem Cells and the Senate
Published in National Review Online on May 25, 2004
America’s Moral Challenge
Published in Scattershot, Vol 2, No 2: Winter 2004 on May 25, 2004
The Ethics of Stem Cells
Published in The Forward on May 21, 2004
The Politics of Bioethics
Published in The Weekly Standard, Volume 009, Issue 33 on May 10, 2004
The Crisis of Everyday Life
Published in The New Atlantis, Spring 2004 on May 1, 2004
The Price of Winning at Any Cost
Published in The Washington Post Outlook section, p. B05 on February 1, 2004
Bioethics in Wartime
Published in The New Atlantis, Number 3, Fall 2003, pp. 23-33. on September 15, 2003
A Clone by any Other Name
Published in The Weekly Standard on December 23, 2002
Biotech Loses Its Innocence
Published in The Weekly Standard on June 24, 2002
New Genetics, Old Quandaries
Published in The Weekly Standard on April 22, 2002
Dr. West and Mr. Bin Laden
Published in The Weekly Standard on December 17, 2001
Should Human Cloning Be Allowed? No, It’s a Moral Monstrosity
Published in The Wallstreet Journal on December 5, 2001
The Looming Fights That Unity Conceals
Published in Los Angeles Times on November 4, 2001
Cloning, Stem Cells, and Beyond
Published in The Weekly Standard on August 13, 2001
Bush’s Stem-Cell Ruling
Published in The Los Angeles Times on August 12, 2001
Of Missile Defense and Stem Cells
Published in The Weekly Standard on July 16, 2001
The Politics of Cloning
Published in Los Angeles Times on June 3, 2001
The Economy of Genes, Biotechnology, and the Limits of Capitalism
Published in Doublethink on June 1, 2001
Race and the Republicans
Published in The Weekly Standard on April 30, 2001
Compassion Gone Mad
Published in The Public Interest on April 1, 2001
Privatization of American Morality
Published in Los Angeles Times on March 18, 2001
Bush the Bold?
Published in The Weekly Standard on February 12, 2001
A Cultural Stalemate
Published in Los Angeles Times on February 4, 2001