Eric Cohen
Adjunct Fellow
Eric Cohen is an Adjunct Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center as well as a member of EPPC’s board of directors.
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, the quarterly journal founded at EPPC focused on 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).
The Many Faces of Technology
Eric Cohen
Technology in its many guises was a central theme of President Bush’s State of the Union address–from Iran’s pursuit of…
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The Weekly Standard / February 3, 2006
Orphans by Design
Eric Cohen
“Orphan” is one of those words that seems old-fashioned to modern ears — a word that evokes abject poverty in…
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First Things / December 1, 2005
Debating Human Enhancement
Eric Cohen
EPPC Fellow and New Atlantis editor Eric Cohen recently particpated in a panel discussion in Washington, D.C. sponsored by Reason…
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Reason Online / January 2, 2006
Older & Wiser?
Eric Cohen
The first issue of The Weekly Standard appeared in September 1995, partway through the Clinton administration, and less than a year after…
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The Weekly Standard, Volume 011, Issue 01 / September 26, 2005
Frist’s Stem Cell Capitulation
Eric Cohen
With his Friday speech on the Senate floor announcing his support for federal funding of new embryonic stem cell research,…
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Weekly Standard, Volume 010, Issue 44 / August 8, 2005
The Real Meaning of Genetics
Eric Cohen
For years, commentators and experts have looked to the genetic future with fear and trembling or euphoria and optimism. But…
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The New Atlantis, Number 9, Summer 2005, pp. 29-41. / July 11, 2005
Unorthodox Endorsement
Eric Cohen
With all the disagreements within modern Judaism, embryonic-stem-cell research is an area of remarkable moral and theological consensus. Judaism is…
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National Review Online / May 24, 2005
Go Forth and Replicate
Eric Cohen
CONSCIENCE IS A SLIPPERY THING. In 2001, during the first few months of the Bush presidency, America engaged in a…
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The Weekly Standard, Volume 010, Issue 35 / May 23, 2005
A Jewish-Catholic Bioethics?
Eric Cohen
The term “Judeo-Christian” has entered our civic vocabulary for good reason. On many of the deepest issues of human life—the…
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First Things, June/July 2005, No. 154 / May 18, 2005