A few weeks ago, William Saletan reviewed the new book Embryo in the New York Times Book Review . Robert George and Chris Tollefsen (the co-authors of Embryo ) replied the next day in an article for National Review Online . Saletan replied later that week with an article on Slate . Now George and . . . . Continue Reading »
“I’m thinkin’ cardboard,” says Jerry, one of the strange creatures that frequent Be Kind Rewind, a ramshackle mom-and-pop videostore in Passaic, New Jersey. And the film Be Kind Rewind is loaded with cardboard, as in the cheap casings of those relics of the 1980sVHS . . . . Continue Reading »
I had a wonderful time speaking in the Tri City area of Washington as the campaign to kill the assisted suicide proposal begins. But it was a travel day from hell getting home. It’s at times like this that I turn to the SHS Funnies:Lio does Richard Dawkins a personal favor:The Larry the Croc . . . . Continue Reading »
The deconstruction of the CIRM, enacted by California, is earnestly to be wished. That won’t happen, but at the very least, given its many troubles, a good reorganization is needed. That is apparently the idea behind a bill in California. From the story in Entrepreneur.Com (no link):California . . . . Continue Reading »
Doctors deciding who will be allowed to fight to remain alive and who will be forced out of treatment is epidemic in the UK where nationalized health care combined with huge influence by utilitarian bioethicists results in some patients being thrown out of the lifeboat.This is a case of a near miss. . . . . Continue Reading »
Animal rights advocates and ALF apologists often say that they aren’t terrorists because all they do is burn buildings, and not hurt people. But they also terrorize their enemies with threats, like the one quoted below—intending to coerce her out of research by threats of burning her . . . . Continue Reading »
A week or so ago I mentioned some summer programs that the Witherspoon Institute is putting on . Here’s another summer program that might interest young readers. I was a Publius Fellow this past summer and highly recommend it. The Claremont Institute is now accepting applications for the 2008 . . . . Continue Reading »
According to today’s New York Times , Stanford is waiving its $36,030 tuition for families earning under $100,000 a year, and waiving the $11,182 room and board fee for families earning under $60,000 as well. Last summer Stanfordwith over $17 billion, the third-largest university . . . . Continue Reading »
A few years ago this would have been a huge story. No more. The wind is slackening behind the embryonic stem cell research sails.Still, it is worth pointing out what the Times reported, and then, what they—so unsurprisingly—left out of the story: The scientists, at the biotechnology . . . . Continue Reading »