The New Atlantis, Winter 2004

Published March 8, 2004

By Adam Keiper & Christine Rosen, Eric Brown

The latest issue of The New Atlantis (www.TheNewAtlantis.com) includes major new articles on high-tech courtship, environmental politics, and the news from the world of nanotech. This issue also features a major bioethics symposium, and three articles analyzing the new Bush space policy.

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Essays:

• Romance in the Information Age
  Christine Rosen on how technology is changing courtship

• Biotechnology and the Good Life
  A symposium on Beyond Therapy, a report by the President’s Council on Bioethics
  – Wilfred M. McClay on science and self-government
  – Steve Talbott on “better children”
  – Charles T. Rubin on “superior performance”
  – Diana Schaub on “ageless bodies”
  – Peter A. Lawler on “happy souls”

• Imagining the Future
  Yuval Levin on innovations, generations, and the biotechnology debates

• Kyoto: A Post-Mortem
  S. Fred Singer on the politics of global climate change

• The Scientist and the Poet
  Paul Cantor on the surprising wrinkles in an age-old rivalry

• The Spirit of Discovery
  Thoughts on President Bush’s new space policy
  – Adam Keiper on the plan and its critics
  – Robert Park on the virtual astronaut
  – Robert Zubrin on the human explorer

State of the Art:

• South Korean Clones
• The Nanotech Schism
• Online Democracy
• Drugs and the Internet
• The Ideological Environmentalist
• Reviewing Peer Review
• The Age of Video Games
• Power-Hungry China, and much more…

Looking Ahead, Looking Back:

• Reviewing American Intelligence
• John Deere and America’s Character