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).
How Liberalism Failed Terri Schiavo
Eric Cohen
THE STORY OF TERRI SCHIAVO is both peculiar in its details and paradigmatic in its meaning. The legal twists, political…
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The Weekly Standard, Volume 010, Issue 27 / April 4, 2005
The Tragedy of Equality
Eric Cohen
In a recent issue of Stanford Medicine, there is a cartoon with two individuals on different sides of a precipice:…
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The New Atlantis, Number 7, Fall 2004/Winter 2005, pp. 101-109. / January 5, 2005
The Party of Cloning
Eric Cohen
JOHN KERRY’S recent assertions about stem cell research are so obviously untrue and so easily refuted that he must on…
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The Weekly Standard, 08/30/2004, Volume 009, Issue 47 / August 22, 2004
Sen. Kerry’s Stem-Cell Fairy Tales
Eric Cohen
WASHINGTON — Along with the war on terror and the economy, stem-cell research has emerged as an issue in the…
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Los Angeles Times / August 22, 2004
The Conservative Understanding of America’s Future
Eric Cohen
[EPPC scholar Eric Cohen discussed America’s future in a recent New York Times article profiling several prominent young conservative thinkers. An…
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The New York Times, 17 July 2004 / July 17, 2004
Kerry’s Zealotry
Eric Cohen
IT IS INCREASINGLY CLEAR that John Kerry and the Democrats plan to make embryonic stem cell research a campaign issue….
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The Weekly Standard, Volume 009, Issue 41 / July 5, 2004
The Politics and Realities of Medicare
Eric Cohen
Trying to understand the economics of Medicare is a difficult business, but nearly everyone agrees that things do not…
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The Public Interest, Issue #156 (Summer 2004). / June 23, 2004
Sports World Rocked By Steroid Scandals
Eric Cohen
Eric Cohen is editor of The New Atlantis, a U.S. magazine that deals with technology and ethics issues. He is…
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Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty / June 22, 2004
President Bush’s Stem Cell Policy is Appropriate
Eric Cohen
As the national debate about embryonic stem cells heats up, it is worth remembering why there is a debate at…
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USA Today / June 8, 2004