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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

  • 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

Essay | Summer 2013

Summer 2013

  • Charles T. Rubin

The Golem and the Limits of Artifice

On what the Jewish legend can (and cannot) teach us about bioethics

From: Science, Technology, and Religion

Charles T. Rubin

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