1. Leon R. Kass

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L’Chaim and Its Limits: Why Not Immortality?

From the May 2001 Print Edition

You don’t have to be Jewish to drink L’Chaim, to lift a glass “To Life.” Everyone in his right mind believes that life is good and that death is bad. But Jews have always had an unusually keen appreciation of life, and not only because it has been stolen from them so often and so cruelly. . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2001

Aldous Huxley Brave New World (1932)

From the March 2000 Print Edition

The urgency of the great political struggles of the twentieth century, successfully waged against totalitarianisms first right and then left, seems to have blinded many people to a deeper truth about the present age: all contemporary societies, the open ones no less than the closed, are traveling . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2000

Dehumanization Triumphant

From the August/September 1996 Print Edition

Recent efforts to legalize physician-assisted suicide and to establish a constitutional “right to die” are deeply troubling events, morally dubious in themselves, extremely dangerous in their likely consequences. The legalization of physician-assisted suicide, ostensibly a measure enhancing the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1996

Farmers, Founders, and Fratricide: The Story of Cain and

From the April 1996 Print Edition

Once one gets right down to it, the difference between liberals and conservatives traces home to a disagreement about the basic source of human troubles.Liberals are inclined to blame external causes”for example, poverty, prejudice, poor rearing, or just plain misfortune”against which . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 1996

Educating Father Abraham:

From the December 1994 Print Edition

My theme is the education of the patriarch Abraham, Father of Judaism, father of Christianity, father of Islam. God Himself undertakes Abraham’s education in order to address and to overcome the natural psychic and social human obstacles to righteous and reverent living, obstacles amply . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 1994

Educating Father Abraham: The Meaning of Wife

From the November 1994 Print Edition

It is not exactly traditional to speak about the education of Abraham. Pious tales of the patriarch regard him as a precocious monotheist even before God calls him, a man who smashed his father’s idols, a man who sprang forth fully pious and knowledgeable about the ways of God. But, in my view, a . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 1994

Man and Woman: An Old Story

From the November 1991 Print Edition

Man and woman. What are they, and why—each alone and both together? How are they alike and how different? How much is difference due to nature, how much to culture? What difference does—and should—the difference make? What do men want of women or women of men? What should they want? Do they . . . . Continue Reading »

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