Ari N. Schulman

Feb 11, 2025 | thenewatlantis.com | Ari N. Schulman

Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version If you study air and space disasters, you will notice a recurring pattern: there are often well-placed observers who know almost immediately what went wrong. Sometimes those observers had even been warning that a disaster exactly like that was coming — that it was just a matter of time.

Nov 22, 2024 | aei.org | Eli Lake |Ari N. Schulman |Christine Rosen |M. Anthony Mills

The 2024 election revealed significant shifts in how Americans seek information, whom they trust, and how they determine the truthfulness and integrity of the information they consume. What does this mean for our political culture and social cohesion in the years to come? Do we need to move beyond discussing “misinformation” and “disinformation” and devise new frameworks for understanding how social media platforms and other emerging technologies influence the information environment?

Sep 18, 2024 | geneticliteracyproject.org | Ari N. Schulman

Ari Schulman | New York Times | September 18, 2024 Credit:: purposedrivenlawyers.com Consider in vitro gametogenesis, or I.V.G., a technology under development that would allow the creation of eggs or sperm from ordinary body tissue, like skin cells. Men could become genetic mothers, women could be fathers, and people could be the offspring of one, three, four or any number of parents. Credit: leaps.org The first baby born via I.V.G. is most likely still a ways off — one researcher predicts...

Sep 9, 2024 | startribune.com | Ari N. Schulman

But once a technology like IVG enters the public view, will the sentiment about reproductive technologies stay settled? After all, Americans sometimes make surprising turns against technologies they once embraced, and we are in the mood for backlash today. Disenchanted with smartphones for kids, social media, nuclear power and processed food, Americans’ former faith in technology to solve the oldest human frustrations has recently frayed.

Sep 9, 2024 | nytimes.com | Ari N. Schulman

There was immediate backlash when Alabama's Supreme Court ruled in February that embryos created through in vitro fertilization qualified as children under the state's wrongful death law. But it was a backlash as much from the right as from the left: The state's overwhelmingly Republican government took just weeks to pass a law to shield fertility clinics from liability when embryos are damaged or destroyed. As a cultural question, it seemed the fight over I.V.F. was over before it began.