The Discovery Institute’s embryonic Center for Human Rights and Bioethics—of which I am a part—is very concerned with working to prevent slavery and human trafficking. That is why we were so pleased that the William Wilberforce Trafficking and Victim’s Protection . . . . Continue Reading »
I have never fully gotten my mind around all of the issues involving reproduction. Women have a near absolute right to abortion—absolute in some places—while at the same time, to ensure that people who want babies can have them, we almost literally move mountains. For example: Using IVF, . . . . Continue Reading »
This link will take you to part three of my interview on Walden’s Pond, in which we deal with the radical environmental movement and its deleterious impact on the importance of human exceptionalism and he concomitant increase in nihilism that leads to the culture of death. I’m trying . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s a warm appreciation of the neglected philanthropists who bankrolled the American conservative movement. . . . . Continue Reading »
In all fairness, I am not sure that this is the solely the result of socialized medicine—an epidemic would put pressure on any health care system—although I think it is a contributing factor: Apparently the UK is ill prepared for a viral epidemic that threatens to sweep the country. From . . . . Continue Reading »
Last year around this time I wrote about a Christmas carol called “Adam Lay Ybounden.” Thanks to our friend Sally Thomas , here’s a video of the carol as performed by the King’s College Choir: . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the basic distinctions in contemporary thought about thinking is between brain and mind. “Brain” means the organic machine inside our skulls. “Mind” is more elusive: it can refer to anything from the generic subject of any possible judgement to the syndrome of affinities, . . . . Continue Reading »
Last Friday evening , Wasilla Bible Church was set fire while several people and two children were inside. The church, which gained national media attention during the presidential campaign as having once been attended by Gov. Sarah Palin, has suffered at least one million dollars in damage due to . . . . Continue Reading »
It is interesting how some things never change. In the 1990s, Jack Kevorkian’s death circus lit a wildfire of debate over assisted suicide, with the default position being that since “terminally ill” people are going to commit suicide because the suffering is sometimes so . . . . Continue Reading »
In the latest issue of Intelligent Life , Anthony Gottlieb offers an interesting commentary on the correlation of faith and fertility in populations today: Earlier this year a survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that nearly three quarters of American adults professed the . . . . Continue Reading »
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