May 27, 2008
Health Care 2008: A Political Primer
Especially in election years, it is worth stating the obvious: reforming health insurance arrangements in the United...
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The Motives That Ought to Encourage Us to the Sciences
The difference between great nations and savage peoples is that the former have applied themselves to the arts and...
May 27, 2008
Montesquieu’s Popular Science
Montesquieu would make most everyone’s top-ten list of political philosophers, but he is not prominent in the ranks...
May 27, 2008
Public Opinion and the Embryo Debates
Our political debates about stem cell research in recent years have stood in a peculiar relation to public opinion....
May 27, 2008
Technology and Authenticity
The problem of authenticity in biotechnology and bioethics sheds some much-needed light on the larger significance of...
May 27, 2008
Biotech Enhancement and Natural Law
New biotechnologies promise to revolutionize human existence — not only by delivering therapeutic treatments and...
May 27, 2008
May 27, 2008
The Technology of Memory
Some seventy years ago, in his essay “The Shape of Things and Men,” the poet and essayist Donald Davidson...
May 20, 2008
March 24, 2008
Science and the Left
A casual observer of American politics in recent years could be forgiven for imagining that the legitimacy of...