Devorah Goldman

Washington, D.C.

Contributing Editor at Mosaic Magazine

Contributing Editor at American Purpose

Contributing Editor at Public Discourse

Sensory & Consumer Science Researcher @UniRdg_FNS | Food Development, Choice & Liking | Psychology | work account but views my own | (she/her)

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Articles

Seeking Truth in the Age of Feeling: A Book Event

3 weeks ago | aei.org | Ryan Anderson |Devorah Goldman |Rich Lowry |With Robert Doar

The “Age of Feeling” is upon us. In his new book, Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth: Law and Morality in Our Cultural Moment, AEI’s Robert P. George argues that the “Age of Faith” of the medieval period and the “Age of Reason” of the European Enlightenments have been followed by a modern “Age of Feeling,” in which people derive their beliefs not from faith or reason—or faith and reason—but from emotion, which becomes the central source of truth. Can truth endure in an Age of Feeling?
Ozempocalypse?

Feb 23, 2025 | thepublicdiscourse.com | Devorah Goldman

Ozempic has hit a strange cultural nerve. At the 2023 Academy Awards, host Jimmy Kimmel joked that “everybody looks so great. When I look around this room, I can’t help but wonder, ‘Is Ozempic right for me?’” The audience laughed nervously. As with liposuction or Botox or anything that suggests a lack of unmediated beauty, Hollywood is skittish about admitting its affinity for the diabetes-turned-weight-loss drug.
The AI Threat to Medical Decision Making

Nov 1, 2024 | eppc.org | Devorah Goldman |Henry Olsen |George Weigel |Eric Kniffin

Published November 1, 2024 Side Effects “Your medical records are a mess,” announced a Wall Street Journal headline from October 24th, 2024. It goes on to assure us: “technology can help.” An October 26th editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine, meanwhile, sounds the exact opposite note. Co-authors Dr. Liam G.
Reflections on Avelut

Oct 1, 2024 | thepublicdiscourse.com | Devorah Goldman

Americans are confused about death. Or as anthropologist Shannon Lee Dawdy argues in her 2021 book, American Afterlives, they are “reinventing” it. The facts of death and grief are endlessly customizable, in Dawdy’s telling: a sort of cottage industry has arisen around planning, as one nurse consultant put it, “the best possible death.” Cryonic preservation, “death doulas,” even compost services for one’s remains: Americans can select from these and countless other end-of-life options.
Panicked Patients, Bewildered Doctors: How the immediate release of test results upends medical communication

Jun 24, 2024 | eppc.org | Devorah Goldman |Patrick Brown |Eric Kniffin |Andrew Walker

Published June 24, 2024Side EffectsIn March, the New England Journal of Medicine published an essay titled “What’s Lymphoma?” in which Dr. Benjamin Vipler recounted his elderly mother’s confusion at receiving medical test results on her phone. Her colonoscopy, an app notification informed her, indicated she had cancer. She did not realize that at first:The message, filled with medical jargon, included no explanation.
EPPC Scholar Files Brief Urging Court to Protect Religious Employers

Apr 24, 2024 | eppc.org | Rachel Morrison |Carl R. Trueman |Devorah Goldman |Nathanael Blake

Published April 22, 2024PDFOn April 22, 2024, an amicus brief was filed on behalf of EPPC Scholar Rachel N. Morrison in the Seventh Circuit in support of a petition for rehearing en banc in Garrick v. Moody Bible Institute. The case involves whether religious organizations, such as Moody Bible Institute, can immediately appeal church autonomy determinations.
The Conspiracists

Apr 16, 2024 | eppc.org | Devorah Goldman |Carrie Gress |Rachel Morrison |George Weigel

Published April 16, 2024Public DiscourseIn an incident that will surprise no one, a man sitting near me on a Manhattan subway began shouting incoherently at passersby. He spent much of the brief ride rambling about immigration, Bidenflation and the like. He also repeatedly displayed a large wooden cross on a necklace while declaring, “May Auschwitz be with you!” I exited the train after one stop to the sound of him shouting “Welcome to Auschwitz!” to new arrivals.
The Conspiracists

Apr 16, 2024 | thepublicdiscourse.com | Devorah Goldman

In an incident that will surprise no one, a man sitting near me on a Manhattan subway began shouting incoherently at passersby. He spent much of the brief ride rambling about immigration, Bidenflation and the like. He also repeatedly displayed a large wooden cross on a necklace while declaring, “May Auschwitz be with you!” I exited the train after one stop to the sound of him shouting “Welcome to Auschwitz!” to new arrivals. In New York City in 2024, subway lunatics are expected.
EPPC Scholars Speak at Rally to Hold FDA Accountable for Women’s Safety

Mar 26, 2024 | eppc.org | Carl R. Trueman |Carrie Gress |George Weigel |Devorah Goldman

March 26, 2024On March 26, 2024, EPPC Scholars Rachel N. Morrison and Natalie Dodson spoke at the Women’s Health Matters Rally during Supreme Court oral argument in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine in support of holding the FDA accountable to protect women’s health and safety. Below are transcripts of their remarks:Thank you. What a great day to be at the Supreme Court.
It’s “Time to Think” about the Irreversible Damage of Shoddy Sciences: A Review of Hannah Barnes

Jan 30, 2024 | thepublicdiscourse.com | Devorah Goldman

Nearly 300 pages into BBC journalist Hannah Barnes’s bold account of the collapse of the Tavistock Clinic—the UK’s premier “gender service” for minors—she describes the case of “Harriet,” a teen girl who abruptly decided to identify as a boy and who later “detransitioned.” Barnes careens between the pronouns “he” and “she” to reflect different points in Harriet’s story. A quick example of the resultant muddle: He knew he wasn’t a man. What’s more he knew he was a woman attracted to other women.