The New Atlantis, Summer 2004

Published September 7, 2004

By Adam Keiper & Christine Rosen, Colleen Carroll Campbell, Eric Brown

The latest issue of The New Atlantis (www.TheNewAtlantis.com) includes major new articles on Alzheimer’s disease, stem cell politics, and commercial human spaceflight. This issue also features an exchange on Internet pornography, and articles on performance-enhancing drugs, China’s military revolution, and nanotechnology news.

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Essays:

• The Human Face of Alzheimer’s
  Colleen Carroll Campbell on the suffering patient, the loving care-giver, and the possibility of dignity amid decline
  
• Stem Cells and the Reagan Legacy
  Gilbert Meilaender on the dangers of hubris and the need for limits in the embryo research debate
  
• Our Cell Phones, Ourselves
  Christine Rosen on civility and community in the wireless age
  
• The Path Not Taken
  Rand Simberg on the myths of the old space age and the future of private space travel
  
• Our Asterisked Heroes
  Douglas Kern on human excellence in the age of performance-enhancing drugs
  
• Pornography and the Internet
  An exchange featuring Jeffrey Rosen on the end of obscenity and David B. Hart on the pornography culture
• Film and TV in Anxious Times
  Thomas S. Hibbs on fantasy film, reality TV, and American life after 9/11

• China’s growing military might
• The rise of Segway
• The end of menopause
• Recent nanotechnology news
• A remembrance of the late Francis Crick, and much more…

• The Virtual Stump
• King James for Surgeon General