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Michael Cook

Michael Cook likes bad puns, bushwalking and black coffee. He did a BA at Harvard University in the US where it was good for networking, but moved to Sydney where it wasn’t. He also did a PhD on an obscure corner of Australian literature. He has worked as a book editor and magazine editor and has published articles in magazines and newspapers in the US, the UK and Australia. Currently he is the editor of BioEdge, a newsletter about bioethics, and MercatorNet.

    Death for sale is a step into the dark
    Michael Cook | 9 May 2007
    Suicide and the internet make a potent brew, as the work of one of the world's most prominent euthanasia campaigners shows.

    A decade of debate over Dolly
    Michael Cook | 27 Feb 2007
    Despite ten years of palaver, scientists use a primitive ethical system for evaluating the science and technology of cloning.

    The Battle For Spain
    Michael Cook | 26 Feb 2007
    A new history of the Spanish Civil War raises painful questions about both sides in the bloody curtain-raiser for World War II.

    No simple victory
    Michael Cook | 14 Feb 2007
    A new history of the Second World War challenges the view that it was 'a good war'.

    For ever young
    Michael Cook | 11 Jan 2007
    An American couple has settled on a drastic solution for the disabled girl they call their "pillow angel".

    Excuses, excuses
    Michael Cook | 9 Dec 2006
    When a leading scientific journal publishes a hoax once, it is a tragedy. When it happens twice, it starts to look like bias.

    The Economist's moral blinkers
    Michael Cook | 25 Nov 2006
    Many people have traded in their brains for a subscription to world's best news magazine. Are they better off?

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