December 15, 2004
Human Frailty and Human Dignity
In the aftermath of an election season, with the question of stem cell research in the public eye and demagogued in the...
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December 15, 2004
The Crisis of Everyday Life
Eric Cohen’s essay puts forward a powerful critique of supporters of embryo research: Their case, Cohen argues, is...
December 15, 2004
In What Sense Equal?
A caricature emerged during the recent presidential campaign — the broadminded, rational pursuit of science versus...
June 22, 2004
The Human Face of Alzheimer’s
When Ronald Reagan slipped the surly bonds in June after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease, Americans seemed...
June 22, 2004
Stem Cells and the Reagan Legacy
Although it is not likely to be as significant as the war in Iraq or the economy for the November 2004 election, the...
June 22, 2004
Our Cell Phones, Ourselves
Hell is other people,” Sartre observed, but you need not be a misanthrope or a diminutive French existentialist to...
June 22, 2004
The Path Not Taken
On June 21, 2004, with thousands in attendance in the small southern California desert town of Mojave, a sexagenarian...
June 22, 2004
Our Asterisked Heroes
The future of heroism is an asterisk. In 1961, Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick decreed that in the annals of baseball,...
June 22, 2004
The End of Obscenity
This June, in Ashcroft v. ACLU II, the Supreme Court called into question the constitutionality of the Child Online...
June 22, 2004
The Pornography Culture
David Bentley Hart on the damage of pornography to minds and culture