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).
Should Human Cloning Be Allowed? No, It’s a Moral Monstrosity
Eric Cohen
Dr. Michael West, the lead scientist on the team that recently cloned the first human embryos, believes his mission in…
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The Wallstreet Journal / December 5, 2001
The Looming Fights That Unity Conceals
Eric Cohen
There are two basic theories about how Sept. 11 will change U.S. politics and culture. The first one contends that…
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Los Angeles Times / November 4, 2001
Cloning, Stem Cells, and Beyond
Eric Cohen
Last week’s vote in the House to ban human cloning is something to celebrate. It may even be something momentous….
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The Weekly Standard / August 13, 2001
Bush’s Stem-Cell Ruling
Eric Cohen
Only a sage could have predicted that President Bush’s first major decision would be about federal funding of embryonic stem-cell…
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The Los Angeles Times / August 12, 2001
Of Missile Defense and Stem Cells
Eric Cohen
Among the issues in American politics that inspire the most ideological fervor these days, stem cells and missile defense are…
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The Weekly Standard / July 16, 2001
The Politics of Cloning
Eric Cohen
At various points in U.S. history, issues and events come along that make old ideologies obsolete, that make existing coalitions…
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Los Angeles Times / June 3, 2001
Race and the Republicans
Eric Cohen
Last February, a few days after a man from Indiana had fired several shots at the White House, I found…
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The Weekly Standard / April 30, 2001
Compassion Gone Mad
Eric Cohen
If a neoconservative is a liberal mugged by reality, then Heather Mac Donald may be the most neoconservative person alive,…
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The Public Interest / April 1, 2001
Privatization of American Morality
Eric Cohen
Scott McNealy, the chief executive officer of Sun Microsystems, made waves a few years ago when in response to a…
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Los Angeles Times / March 18, 2001