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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 •
All

Essay | Spring 2025

Spring 2025

  • Brad Littlejohn
  • Clare Morell
  • Emma Waters

Stop Hacking Humans

From cradle to grave, surrogacy to smartphones to gender surgery to euthanasia, Americans are using technology to shortcut human nature — and shortchange ourselves. Here is a new agenda for turning technology away from hacking humans and toward healing them.

Brad Littlejohn, Clare Morell, Emma Waters

Essay | Fall 2024

Fall 2024

  • Sara Hendren

Homes where old people and disabled people can help each other out

From: What We Should Build

Sara Hendren

Review | Fall 2023

Fall 2023

  • Algis Valiunas

Wounded Healers

In a new book, an eminent psychologist with an “unquiet mind” explores why it often takes one to treat another.

Algis Valiunas

Essay | Summer 2023

Summer 2023

  • Daniel Walden

The Speech of the Dead

Against AI necromancy

From: They’re Here…

Daniel Walden

Essay | Summer 2023

Summer 2023

  • Brian J. A. Boyd

B.S. Jobs and the Coming Crisis of Meaning

AI will destroy a lot of jobs that are already pointless. Is that really worth celebrating?

From: They’re Here…

Brian J. A. Boyd

Essay | Winter 2023

Winter 2023

  • Alan Jacobs

A Humanism of the Abyss

At a moment when people who don’t share our identity feel alien, Oliver Sacks’s classic book about reaching catatonic patients has much to teach us.

Alan Jacobs

Essay | Winter 2023

Winter 2023

  • Alexander Raikin

No Other Options

Newly revealed documents depict a Canadian euthanasia regime that efficiently ushers the vulnerable to a “beautiful” death.

Alexander Raikin

Essay | Spring 2022

Spring 2022

  • James Mumford

Therapy Beyond Good and Evil

A nonjudgmental psychology is failing patients who need to hear hard truths.

From: Saving the Real

James Mumford

Review | Summer 2021

Summer 2021

  • William Lombardo

Losing Ourselves

Why the prospect of loving machines is so sad

William Lombardo

Essay | Summer 2021

Summer 2021

  • Joshua Briscoe

Dying, But Not Alone

We can’t escape the social dimension of choosing how we die.

Joshua Briscoe

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