I think it is outrageous that the University of Florida is paying the murderer and anti-disabled bigot Jack Kevorkian $50,000 to speak. And I certainly don’t object to protests against that appearance. But, worried about disruption, the university is properly planning security precautions.For . . . . Continue Reading »
A friend runs an interesting website called “Right Wing Bob”—a never-ending discussion of Bob Dylan’s work by a political and theological conservative. He’s posted today an interview with me about the influence of Dylan’s music , which may interest some of our . . . . Continue Reading »
Most animal rights activists deny the many benefits—both scientific and medical—that we derive from doing animal research. This position is empirically untenable. Case in point: The recent experiment in which scientists created a beating heart from adult stem cells—which I blogged . . . . Continue Reading »
Within the past couple weeks, Doubleday has released two new books by First Things board members. You might want to give them a read. In Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism: A Call to Action , George Weigel offers a succinct statement of where the war on jihadism stands today, what . . . . Continue Reading »
The embryonic stem cell/human cloning debates are not about science. They are about ethics and morality and the proper parameters, if any, to place around the incredibly powerful biotechnological sector. Some of us have long contended that the science intelligentsia want a blank check—both . . . . Continue Reading »
In case you missed it, the WSJ had an interesting item recently on China’s continuing enforcement of their one-child policy. It seems that many Chinese elite have been flouting it and the government has cracked down, revoking the scofflaws’ Communist Party membership. Don’t be . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m not the resident math-guru here at First Things . So I’ll be interested in what Amanda (with her CUA math and English double-major background) might have to say about this review by Jim Holt of John Allen Paulos’s Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God . . . . Continue Reading »
Gordon Brown, the British prime minister, has written an op-ed in the Daily Telegraph announcing his support for organ donation without consent. Or, rather, “implied consent,” meaning that patients and their legal representatives will have to register their refusal to donate, via some . . . . Continue Reading »
My friend, the pseudonymous author Spengler , sends this note for posting on the First Things blog : Andrew Higgins’ January 11 report in the Wall Street Journal of the re-discovery of a Koranic manuscript archive long thought lost has prompted hundreds of blog comments. It is a momentous . . . . Continue Reading »
This animal study may pave the way for wonderful medical treatments. From the story:Scientists have created a beating heart in the laboratory in a breakthrough that could allow doctors one day to make a range of organs for transplant almost from scratch.The procedure involved stripping all the . . . . Continue Reading »
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