January 3, 2007
Our Childless Dystopia
P. D. James’s 1993 novel, The Children of Men, was an insightful if not entirely satisfactory look at the world we...
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January 3, 2007
Immortality Lite
Two Mayan-themed movies reached multiplexes this Christmas, which might be a sign of the apocalypse — especially...
January 3, 2007
Theory Wars, Again
Barbara Herrnstein Smith is an academic polymath, with books on everything from how poems end to the dynamics of...
September 20, 2006
Beyond the Right to Life
Even the most complacent observers of the contemporary scene know that we find ourselves in a time of extraordinary...
September 20, 2006
September 20, 2006
Cloning’s Apologist
Ten years have passed since the birth of Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult, on July 5, 1996. The...
September 20, 2006
C. S. Lewis Goes to the Laboratory
Americans love to talk about reason and revelation, but we aren’t very good at it. With our passion for vulgar...
June 21, 2006
The Methanol Alternative
Any serious energy policy must deal with three critical issues. First, economic: The policy must provide an energy...
June 21, 2006
Medicine Without Limits
Even before Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, everyone knew that medicine had innate tendencies to exceed reasonable...
June 21, 2006
Babies for Sale
White babies cost more than black babies. A Columbia student’s eggs are worth less than a Harvard...