In today’s Washington Post : Few issues are likely to generate more emotional opposition than federal funding of stem cell research. Handled wrongly, it could energize conservative opponents and derail Barack Obama’s presidency. There is no question that we must move ahead, but caution . . . . Continue Reading »
I am back in the podcast business, renamed from Brave New Bioethics to What It Means to be Human. After consulting with my colleagues at the Discovery Institute—which is producing the broadcast—we decided that since I am dealing with issues well beyond bioethics now, the new title was . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Real Clear Politics , Thomas Sowell counters Nicholas Kristof’s pleasure that in the Obama administration, “intellectuals”—the ones who are “interested in ideas and comfortable with complexity” and “read the classics”—will be back in . . . . Continue Reading »
The Good UPI reports “About 6,000 Muslim clerics from around India approved a fatwa against terrorism Saturday at a conference in Hyderabad. According to the Fatwa “Islam rejects all kinds of unjust violence, breach of peace, bloodshed, murder, and plunder and does not allow it in any . . . . Continue Reading »
My former colleague Ryan T. Anderson has a review in this week’s Weekly Standard questioning the claims of neuroscientist Michael S. Gazzaniga’s book Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique . Here’s a sample: Gazzaniga’s thoroughgoing physicalism, which motivates his . . . . Continue Reading »
A little pocket-sized volume, Jesus Is My All in All: Praying with the Saint of Calcutta, just came out from Doubleday. It is a collection of thoughts and prayers in the words of Mother Teresa, arranged by Fr. Brian Kolodiejchuk, M.C., as a novena of meditations from the “saint of the . . . . Continue Reading »
I wrote earlier this year about the Kennedy/Brownback bill, intended to prevent parents from being pressured into (or against) eugenic abortion when a gestating baby is found to have a condition such as Down syndrome, dwarfism, or cystic fibrosis. I am happy to report that it was signed into law, . . . . Continue Reading »
The Bush embryonic stem cell funding limitations will be histoire as of January 20, 2009. But the advances in ethical stem cell research, that I believe his policy did much to promote, will not abate. Now, umbilical cord blood stem cells have been used to create rudimentary heart valves. From the . . . . Continue Reading »
The Times of London has a so-called news article this morning in its “U.S. & America News” section on Sarah Palin’s first sit-down interview since the election. The piece is linked to on the main news page with this image: After navigating to the article, menacingly titled, . . . . Continue Reading »
In trundling along on my path toward understanding how theological, cultural, social, and political conservatism are interrelated yet distinct things, I revisited a fine Heritage lecture by one James Ceaser called "Creed Versus Culture." There is no way to do justice to the whole lecture . . . . Continue Reading »
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