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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 | Summer 2025

Summer 2025

  • David Polansky

What’s the Difference Between Hearing Aids and Puberty Blockers?

“We aren’t defective, just different” was the 1990s rallying cry of deaf activists who rejected medical fixes. Why have transgender activists argued that only medical tech can make them who they really are?

David Polansky

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

  • Yuval Levin

For Whom Shall We Build?

Marc Andreessen wants us to go faster. But what does that matter if nobody’s left in the car?

From: What Calls to Build Miss

Yuval Levin

Essay | Summer 2024

Summer 2024

  • Ari Schulman

Open Wallets, Empty Hearts

Effective altruism asked us to do more good by becoming less human.

Ari Schulman

Essay | Spring 2024

Spring 2024

  • Thomas Fuchs

Narcissistic Depressive Technoscience

Why modern man yearns to be replaced, fantasizes of being the one to do it, and how we can stay human instead

Thomas Fuchs

Review | Winter 2024

Winter 2024

  • Rachel Altman

Barbie vs. Botox

Transhumanism is so over. Wrinkles are so back.

Rachel Altman

Review | Summer 2023

Summer 2023

  • Charles T. Rubin

Humanity Does Not Strike Back

Why the end of the human species would be bad, actually

Charles T. Rubin

Review | Winter 2018

Winter 2018

  • Olga Rachello

Lives of the Immortalists

The human stories of people who don’t want to be human

Olga Rachello

Essay | Spring 2015

Spring 2015

  • Gilbert Meilaender

Biotech Enhancement and the History of Redemption

Gilbert Meilaender

Essay | Spring 2015

Spring 2015

  • Algis Valiunas

The Man Who Thought of Everything

The grand scientific vision and the moral myopia of Linus Pauling

Algis Valiunas

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