State of the Art | Spring 2010
Leon R. Kass
Leon R. Kass is the Madden-Jewett Chair at the American Enterprise Institute and the Addie Clark Harding Professor Emeritus in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He was a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics from 2002 to 2007, and its chairman from 2002 to 2005.
In The New Atlantis
Books
- The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis (Free Press, 2003)
- Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics (Encounter, 2002)
- Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying, ed. with Amy Kass (Notre Dame, 2000)
- The Ethics of Human Cloning, with James Q. Wilson (AEI, 1998)
- Toward a More Natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs (Free Press, 1995)
- The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature (Free Press, 1994)"]
Other Publications
- Co-author, with Amy Kass, “Take Time to Remember,” Weekly Standard, May 29, 2011
- “The Significance of Veterans Day,” Weekly Standard, November 11, 2011
- Amicus Curiae Brief In Support of Petitioners in Hollingsworth v. Perry, January 29, 2013
- “Forbidding Science: Some Beginning Reflections,” Science and Engineering Ethics, September 2009
- “Looking for an Honest Man: Reflections of an Unlicensed Humanist,” 38th Annual Jefferson Lecture, National Endowment for the Humanities, May 22, 2009
- “Why Even Atheists Should Appreciate the Ten Commandments,” Bradley Lecture Series, American Enterprise Institute, January 12, 2009
- “A Truer Humanism,” Azure, Autumn 2008
- “Keeping Life Human: Science, Religion, and the Soul,” Azure, Spring 2008
- “For the Love of the Game,” The New Republic, March 26, 2008
- “Defending Life and Dignity,” Weekly Standard, February 25, 2008
- “Brave New Future,” National Review Online, November 21, 2007
- “Science, Religion, and the Human Future,” Commentary, April 5, 2007
- “Cast Me Not Off in Old Age,” Commentary, January 2006
- “Lingering Longer: Who Will Care?,” Washington Post, September 29, 2005
- “A Way Forward on Stem Cells,” Washington Post, July 12, 2005
- “What Price the Perfect Baby?,” Science, July 9, 1971
- “Problems in the Meaning of Death,” Science, December 11, 1970
- “Playing Politics with the Sick,” Washington Post, October 8, 2004
- “Reproduction and Responsibility,” Wall Street Journal, April 1, 2004
- “We Don’t Play Politics with Science,” Washington Post, March 3, 2004
- “The Price of Winning at Any Cost,” Washington Post Outlook, February 1, 2004
- “The Pursuit of Biohappiness,” Washington Post, October 16, 2003
- “NOW with Bill Moyers,” PBS, July 25, 2003
- “How One Clone Leads to Another,” New York Times, January 24, 2003
- “The Age of Genetic Technology Arrives,” American Spectator, November%u2014December 2002
- “The End of Courtship,” The Public Interest, September 23, 2002
- “Stop All Cloning of Humans for Four Years,” Wall Street Journal, July 11, 2002
- “Defending Dignity,” Christianity Today, May 23, 2002
- “The Meaning of Life%u2014In the Laboratory,” The Public Interest, January 1, 2002
- “The Public’s Stake,” The Public Interest, January 1, 2003
- “The Ethics of Cloning,” Testimony Before United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, June 7, 2001
- “Fanning Real Desire,” American Enterprise Institute Online, June 1, 2000
- “Revive Courtship for Seeking Love,” Los Angeles Times, February 20, 2000
- “Triumph or Tragedy,” Commentary, January 1, 2000
- “Proposing Courtship,” First Things, October 1999
- “Why we should ban the cloning of human beings,” Texas Review of Law & Politics, Fall 1999
- “The Moral Meaning of Genetic Technology,” Commentary, September 1999
- “Love of Woman and Love of God: The Case of Jacob,” Commentary, March 1999
- “Beyond Biology,” New York Times, August 23, 1998
- “Wisdom of Repugnance,” The New Republic, June 2, 1997
- “Courting Death: Assisted Suicide, Doctors, and the Law,” Commentary, December 1996
- “The Troubled Dream of Nature as a Moral Guide.,” Hastings Center Report, November/December 1996
- “Physician-Assisted Suicide, Medical Ethics, and the Future of the Medical Profession,” Duquesne Law Review, Fall 1996
- “Dehumanization Triumphant,” First Things, August/September 1996
- “A Genealogy of Justice,” Commentary, July 1996
- “Farmers, Founders, and Fratricide: The Story of Cain and Abel,” First Things, April 1996
- “What’s Your Name,” First Things, November 1995
- “Intelligence and the Social Scientist,” Public Interest, Summer 1995
- “Appreciating The Phenomenon of Life,” Hastings Center Report, June 17, 1995
- “Educating Father Abraham: The Meaning of Fatherhood,” First Things, December 1994
- “Educating Father Abraham: The Meaning of Wife,” First Things, November 1994
- “Why the Dietary Laws?,” Commentary, June 1994
- “Is There a Right to Die?,” Hastings Center Report, January%u2014February 1993
- “Seeing the Nakedness of His Father,” Commentary, June 1992
- “Regarding Daughters and Sisters,” Commentary, April 1992
- “I Will Give No Deadly Drug,” American College of Surgeons Bulletin, March 1992
- “Organs For Sale?,” Public Interest, Spring 1992
- “Suicide Made Easy,” Commentary, December 1991
- “Man and Woman: An Old Story,” First Things, November 1991
- “A Woman for All Seasons,” Commentary, September 1991
- “Why Doctors Must Not Kill,” Commonweal, August 9, 1991
- “Death with Dignity and the Sanctity of Life,” Commentary, March 1990
- “Practicing Ethics: Where's the Action?,” Hastings Center Report, January%u2014February 1990
- “Neither for Love nor Money: Why Doctors Must Not Kill,” The Public Interest, Winter 1989
- “Doctors Must Not Kill,” Journal of the American Medical Assocation, April 8, 1988
- “Thinking About the Body,” Hastings Center Report, February 1985
- “Professing Ethically,” Journal of the American Medical Association, March 11, 1983
- “The Case for Morality,” American Scholar, Spring 1983
- “Patenting Life,” Commentary, December 1981
- “Change and Permanence,” In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology, December 1981
- “Ethical Dilemmas in the Care of the Ill II.,” Journal of the American Medical Association, October 24, 1980
- “Ethical Dilemmas in the Care of the Ill I.,” Journal of the American Medical Association, October 17, 1980
- “Making Babies Revisited,” Public Interest, Winter 1979
- “Regarding the End of Medicine and the Pursuit of Health,” Public Interest, Summer 1975
- “Averting One’s Eyes, or Facing the Music?,” The Hastings Center Studies, May 1974
- “The New Biology,” Science, November 1971
- “Babies by Means of In Vitro Fertilization,” New England Journal of Medicine, January 1, 1971"]