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Staying Human

Advancing science and medicine for, not on, human beings

Read the Editors’ Introduction
End of Life •
Eugenics •
Reproductive Technology •
Enhancement •
Beginning of Life •
Human Dignity •
Medicine •
Transhumanism •
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Online Exclusive | June 29, 2026

June 29, 2026

  • Leah Libresco Sargeant

AI’s Builders Are Both Arrogant and Afraid

Techies want AI so it can put humans in their place. They also want to build God. Pope Leo has a secret third option.

Leah Libresco Sargeant

Correspondence | Summer 2026

Summer 2026

  • Leah Libresco Sargeant
  • Rita Koganzon

A State That Supports Families, or a State-Shaped Family?

Leah Libresco Sargeant and Rita Koganzon debate The Dignity of Dependence.

Leah Libresco Sargeant and Rita Koganzon

Essay | Summer 2026

Summer 2026

  • John Fechtel

Is Your Embryo Harvard Material?

Embryo screening startups like Herasight pressure parents to help kids compete from the very first moments of life.

John Fechtel

Essay | Summer 2026

Summer 2026

  • The American Enterprise Institute’s Council on AI Ethics

Offloading Ourselves

An inquiry into staying human in the age of AI

The American Enterprise Institute’s Council on AI Ethics

Review | Spring 2026

Spring 2026

  • Rita Koganzon

Who Wants Populist Family Policy?

There is a good reason why thick state support for mothers and caregivers hasn’t taken off in America.

Rita Koganzon

Essay | Winter 2026

Winter 2026

  • Roy Heidelberg

You Can’t Work the Robo-Ref

Baseball’s new automated ump means there’s no one left to blame for bad calls.

Roy Heidelberg

Essay | Winter 2026

Winter 2026

  • Nic Rowan

Doctor Death’s Messiah

Broke, raving, and living out of his van, for years Jack Kevorkian turned away from his first love — experiments with death — to a side quest: bringing Jesus Christ to the big screen.

Nic Rowan

Essay | Winter 2026

Winter 2026

  • Clare Coffey

Where’s the Thrill in the Enhanced Games?

The new doped Olympics are not about what we can do but what tech titans can do to us.

Clare Coffey

Essay | Winter 2026

Winter 2026

  • Leah Libresco Sargeant

Who Decides on Emergency Abortions After Roe?

Hospitals have to interpret new laws. Some are refusing to.

Leah Libresco Sargeant

Essay | Fall 2025

Fall 2025

  • Hannah Rowan

An Ozempic in Every Lunch Box

Big Pharma and MAHA are fighting over how to treat childhood obesity. In the meantime, what do we tell our kids?

Hannah Rowan

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