Ari Schulman is editor of The New Atlantis.
His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Hedgehog Review, Commentary, First Things, and Slate. He has previously been a research assistant in the Opinion department at the New York Times, an ontological engineer at Cycorp, and has degrees in computer science and English from the University of Texas at Austin.
He was previously a contributor to The New Atlantis’s now-retired Futurisms blog, which critiqued transhumanism.
He can be reached at aschulman@thenewatlantis.com.
Selected Futurisms Posts
- “Beware Responsible Discourse,” March 18, 2014
- “Marilynne Robinson on Alasdair MacIntyre: Where’s the Decline?,” February 13, 2012
- “Against Medical Ethics?,” February 10, 2012
- “Robin Hanson, Proudly Fighting the Good War Against Baby Girls,” January 23, 2012
- “History, 9/11 Relics, and ‘Technological Superstition,’” September 12, 2011
- “Appearance as a Guide to Moral Character: Does Real Beauty Come from the Inside?,” August 4, 2011
- “Carving Whiteness into Asian Faces,” June 23, 2011
- “Racism, Humanism, and Speciesism: The Irony of the Censored Huck Finn,” February 22, 2011
- “Watson, Can You Hear Me? (The Significance of the Jeopardy AI win),” February 17, 2011
- “Attack of the Cloners,” May 1, 2010
- “Why Hope?: Transhumanism and the Arts,” March 10, 2010
- “Will it Blend?: Apples and Philosophy of Mind,” March 1, 2010
- “Transhuman Ambitions and the Lesson of Global Warming,” February 16, 2010
- “An Ideal Model for Whole-Brain Emulation,” December 30, 2009
- “The problem with defending death,” November 12, 2009
- “The Myth of Libertarian Enhancement, Cont’d,” November 9, 2009
- “Are psychologists humans too?,” October 27, 2009