I am the executive editor of The Bulwark.

I am also a senior editor at The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology and Society, and a contributing editor to National Affairs, American Purpose, and Current.

I was the Books & Arts editor of The Weekly Standard from mid-2017 until the magazine was closed in December 2018.

Before joining the Standard, I spent more than a decade as editor of The New Atlantis, a quarterly journal published by the Center for the Study of Technology and Society. I had helped found the journal in 2003 and was its managing editor for three and a half years before taking over as its editor in early 2007. I was also the editor of the New Atlantis Books series, producing six books. And I was a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) and the editor of Big Questions Online.

I moved to Washington in 1995 to study political science at American University. I have worked on Capitol Hill and for various think tanks, and also in a corporate lobbying office and as a consultant.

I grew up in Hillsborough Township, New Jersey.

Twitter: @AdamKeiper. Reddit: /u/AdamKeiper. Slashdot: ATKeiper.

• "Gertrude Himmelfarb, 1922–2019," The Bulwark, January 2, 2020.
   
• "Restoring Congress's Brain," The Weekly Standard, December 24, 2018.
   
• "Father Figure," The Weekly Standard, June 18, 2018. (Short review of Joseph Crespino's Atticus Finch: The Biography.)
   
• "Colony Chaos," The Weekly Standard, May 14, 2018. (Short review of Chris Buckley's The Judge Hunter.)
   
• "Gratitude and Perpetuation," The Weekly Standard, May 7, 2018. (Review of Jonah Goldberg's Suicide of the West.)
   
• "Science & Religion—Exploring the Harmonies," video and transcript of a discussion I moderated at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, October 13, 2017.
   
• "Shut Up, They Explained: The Google Monoculture," The Weekly Standard, August 21/28, 2017.
   
• A video interview I conducted with Martin Rees—the decorated British cosmologist and astrophysicist—about speculative physics, Big Questions Online, July, 11, 2017.
   
• "Brain Implants and Transhuman Nightmares" (video), a lecture at a conference hosted by Princeton University's James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, May 23, 2017. (A mirror of the video is here.)
   
• "Before You Roll Up Your Sleeves," Philanthropy, Winter 2017. (Review of the book What Comes Next?).
   
• "The Quiet Man Behind the Computer Revolution," Philanthropy, Summer 2016. (Review of the biography Moore's Law.)
   
• "Destined for Freedom," Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2016.
   
• "The Transformative Impact of Robotics and Automation" (congressional testimony before the Joint Economic Committee), May 25, 2016.
   
• "Will a Robot Take Your Job?" (policy discussion), Cato Institute, April 20, 2016.
   
• "Founders' Beat" (a review of the musical Hamilton, written with Caitrin Keiper), The Weekly Standard, issue dated November 23, 2015. (See also this piece about Hamilton for Acculturated, September 25, 2015.)
   
• "The Public Interest at 50," National Affairs, Fall 2015. (See also "Our Conservative Magazines," WeeklyStandard.com, November 6, 2015.)
   
• "Innovation and Religion, Today and Tomorrow," afterword for Religion and Innovation: Antagonists or Partners?, edited by Donald A. Yerxa (Bloomsbury, 2015). (Tiny excerpt here.)
   
• "What's the Difference?" (blog post), TheNewAtlantis.com, September 25, 2015.
   
• "Time to Apologize for Eugenics," National Review Online, November 6, 2014.
   
• "Jim Rees, R.I.P.," National Review Online, September 23, 2014.
   
• "A Bradley Week Appreciation for Bill Schambra," National Review Online, June 18, 2014.
   
• "Obama's Gettysburg Address," National Review Online, November 21, 2013.
   
• "Gravity and the Search for Meaning," Acculturated, October 28, 2013.
   
• A few blog posts about Amy and Leon Kass's series of e-books on the U.S. federal holidays: George Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Independence Day.
   
• "The New Atlantis Turns Ten," National Review Online, May 20, 2013.
   
• "The Record of Our 'Scientist in Chief'" (with Brendan P. Foht), The New Atlantis, Winter/Spring 2013.
   
• "Four Decades after We Last Left the Moon," National Review Online, December 14, 2012.
   
• "Silent Spring, Fifty Years Later," National Review Online, September 28, 2012.
   
• "Update on Stem Cell Lawsuit" (with Brendan P. Foht), National Review Online, September 17, 2012.
   
• "Thomas Szasz, R.I.P.," National Review Online, September 12, 2012.
   
• "Romney and Obama Debate Science Policy," National Review Online, September 7, 2012.
   
• "Celebrate Civilization Day, Not Earth Day" National Review Online, April 23, 2012.
   
• "Minding Paul Allen," Philanthropy, Fall 2011.
   
• "The Problem with 'Friendly' Artificial Intelligence" (with Ari N. Schulman), The New Atlantis, Summer 2011. (Reprinted in Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity, Peter A. Lawler and Marc D. Guerra, eds. [Rowman and Littlefield, 2015].)
   
• "Bachmann's Dangerous Flirtation with the Anti-Vaccine Movement," National Review Online, September 13, 2011.
   
• "The End of Friendship: Does Social Media Destroy the Human Relationship?"—video of a debate I moderated at the American Enterprise Institute between Roger Scruton and Tyler Cowen, May 11, 2011.
   
• "Denis Dutton, R.I.P.," National Review Online, December 28, 2010.
   
• "Stem Cells, Life, and the Law" (with Yuval Levin), National Review Online, August 25, 2010.
   
• "The Human Genome and the Human Being," National Review Online, August 9, 2010.
   
• "Breakthrough," Philanthropy, Winter 2010, pp. 26-36. (See also the letters section of the Summer 2010 issue of Philanthropy.)
   
• "Feynman and the Futurists," Wall Street Journal, January 8, 2010.
     
• "When Folly is Forever," Wall Street Journal, October 22, 2009.
   
• "Conservatives in Space," National Review Online, August 6, 2009.
    
• "Stem Cells, Science, and Ethics," National Review Online, March 9, 2009.
     
• "Science and the Obama Administration," The New Atlantis, Winter 2009, pp. 9-12.
    
• "The Synapse and the Soul," Wall Street Journal, July 8, 2008, p. A19.
     
• "Redeeming NASA," National Review Online, February 4, 2008.
     
• "March of the Machines," Wall Street Journal, June 7, 2007, p. D7.
     
• "Nanoethics as a Discipline?," The New Atlantis, Winter 2007, pp. 55-67. (See also "Debating Nanoethics," The New Atlantis, Summer 2007, pp. 5-14.)
     
• "The Age of Neuroelectronics," The New Atlantis, Winter 2006, pp. 4-41. (Reprinted in Nanotechnology, the Brain, and the Future, Sean A. Hays and Jason Scott Robert, eds. [Springer, 2013] and also in Neurotechnology: Premises, Potential, and Problems, James Giordano, ed. [CRC, 2012].)
     
• "A Vast Conspiracy?" National Review, October 10, 2005, pp. 48-49.
     
• "Artifice and Artistry: Can Robots Be Creative?" In Character, Volume 1, Number 3, Spring 2005, pp. 68-77.
     
• Some blogging on nanotechnology I did from the National Academy of Sciences: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (Feb. 9-11, 2005).
     
• My video tribute to Iraq's brave voters, January 30, 2005.
     
• "Science and Congress," The New Atlantis, Number 7, Fall 2004/Winter 2005, pp. 19-50. (This essay discusses the Office of Technology Assessment, also the subject of a letter I wrote for the January/February 2006 issue of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.)
     
• Liveblogging from the Foresight Institute's 2004 Conference on Advanced Nanotechnology (October 22-24, 2004), with video and pictures.
     
• "Too Much Spotty Thinking," The New York Sun, July 29, 2004.
     
• "Bush's NASA Revolution," National Review Online, July 20, 2004.
     
• "Who Is Politicizing Science? Understanding the Interactions and Interests in Science and Politics" (conference remarks), George Marshall Institute, March 23, 2004.
    
• "The Nanotech Schism," The New Atlantis, Winter 2004, pp. 101-103.
     
• "The Right Plan," The New Atlantis, Winter 2004, pp. 86-90. (See also the debate I moderated on February 5, 2004 between Robert Park, a vocal critic of all manned spaceflight, and Robert Zubrin, a proponent of ambitious human activity in space. You can read the transcript and see pictures by clicking here. Their remarks were edited into articles in the Winter 2004 issue of The New Atlantis: Park on "The Virtual Astronaut" and Zubrin on "The Human Explorer.")
     
• "The Red Planet: Reaching Out to Mars," The Weekly Standard, issue dated February 2, 2004.
     
• "Facing NASA's Earthbound Critics," The American Enterprise Online, January 22, 2004.
     
• "NASA and Space Exploration," Washington Journal, C-SPAN, January 10, 2004.
     
• "Mission to Mars," National Review Online, January 9, 2004.
     
• "The Alien Question," National Review Online, January 7, 2004. (Review of The Holy Land by Robert Zubrin.)
     
• "A New Vision for NASA," The New Atlantis, Fall 2003, pp. 3-22.
     
• "The Nanotechnology Revolution," The New Atlantis, Summer 2003, pp. 17-34.
     
• "Commemorating Attacks," National Review Online, September 6, 2002.
     
• "Traficant Gets Beamed Out," National Review Online, July 26, 2002.
   
• "The Cloning Debate Redefined," Brainwash (America's Future Foundation), January 2002.
     
• After the Florida screw-up on Election Day in 2000, I created a presidential election "Choose-Your-Own-Adventure" site called Election 2000 Final Decision. (It was mentioned in a few newspaper articles.) It's interesting to revisit it now — as a reminder of the gap between how different an event appears while it is happening and later in our recollection. Many of the contingencies I outlined that seemed plausible at the time now sound plain silly.
     
• The speech I delivered at American University's 1999 commencement ceremony (pdf).

I can be reached at mag [at] adamkeiper.com.

Site created 10 June 1999. Last updated 18 May 2022.