Is modern technology a burden or a blessing? A political dream or a moral and political nightmare? How will different technologies-biochemical and genetic manipulation, weapons of mass destruction, and human cloning-shape our political debates and way of life in the years and decades ahead? What does a responsible politics of technology look like-one that is true to America’s place in the world and to the principles of liberal democracy?

Mark Blitz (A.B and Ph.D. from Harvard University) is Fletcher Jones Professor of Political Philosophy, Chairman of the Department of Government and Director of Research at Claremont McKenna College. He has served as Associate Director of the United States Information Agency, where he was the United States Government’s senior official responsible for educational and cultural exchange, and as Senior Professional Staff Member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. He has been Vice President and Director of Political and Social Studies at the Hudson Institute, and has taught political theory at Harvard University and at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the co-editor of Educating the Prince and the author of Heidegger’s "Being and Time" and the Possibility of Political Philosophy, and of many articles on political philosophy, public policy, and foreign affairs.