Editor | Ari Schulman |
---|---|
Frequency | Quarterly |
Publisher | The Center for the Study of Technology and Society, The Ethics and Public Policy Center |
Founded | 2003 |
Based in | Washington, D.C. |
Language | English |
Website | https://www.thenewatlantis.com/ |
ISSN | 1543-1215 (print) 1555-5569 (web) |
OCLC | 56518547 |
The New Atlantis is a journal founded by the social conservative advocacy group the Ethics and Public Policy Center, now published by the Center for the Study of Technology and Society.[1] It covers topics about the social, ethical, political, and policy dimensions of modern science and technology.[2] The journal is editorially reviewed but is not peer-reviewed on scientific topics.[3] It is edited by Ari Schulman, having previously been edited by co-founders Eric Cohen and Adam Keiper.
The journal's name is taken from Francis Bacon's utopian novella New Atlantis, which the journal's editors describe as a "fable of a society living with the benefits and challenges of advanced science and technology".[4] An editorial in the inaugural issue states that the aim of the journal is "to help us avoid the extremes of euphoria and despair that new technologies too often arouse; and to help us judge when mobilizing our technological prowess is sensible or necessary, and when the preservation of things that count requires limiting the kinds of technological power that would lessen, cheapen, or ultimately destroy us."[5] Writing in National Review, the journal's editor Adam Keiper described The New Atlantis as being written from a "particularly American and conservative way of thinking about both the blessings and the burdens of modern science and technology".[6] New Atlantis authors and bioethicists publishing in other journals have also similarly referred to The New Atlantis as being written from a social conservative stance that utilizes religion.[7][8][9][10]
You are also correct in noting that The New Atlantis is not a peer-reviewed scientific publication. It is, rather, editorially reviewed — like many other journals and magazines intended for a wide public audience
MIT
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).Hastings
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).