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What Does Woman Want?

From the October 2009 Print Edition

For a few interesting weeks this summer—catapulted by romantic melodramas with a wide cast of characters, including Republican politicians and popular reality-show parents Jon and Kate—the question of opposite-sex marriage and its own meaning momentarily took center stage. Just about . . . . Continue Reading »

Pro-Animal, Pro-Life

From the June/July 2009 Print Edition

Why aren’t vegetarians and pro-lifers more closely aligned? After all, the best writing about ethical vegetarianism—the moral case for refusing meat, as opposed to the more self-interested arguments from health or finance is good enough to provoke serious reflection, even among . . . . Continue Reading »

The Will to Disbelieve

From the February 2009 Print Edition

Imagine for a moment that much of the world is living under a set of ideas that has manifestly awful economic, social, and moral consequences. Imagine, in fact, that one of the most obvious things about the world is the negative impact of those ideas on the people who live under them”which is . . . . Continue Reading »