A few weeks ago, I posted about bitter complaints being made by scientists in Brave New Britain that the government had not yet funded the creation of human/animal hybrid cloned embryos. The scientists charged that morality might have played a part in the non funding—a terrible thought that . . . . Continue Reading »
Gary Francione, who argues that to be authentic all animal rights believers must be vegan and lead by example (I agree with him on this), is unhappy. He worries that the animal rights movement is falling backwards because of the “humane meat” campaigns that, in his mind, have made carne . . . . Continue Reading »
Because of my participation on this blog, which bears the name conservative (albeit postmodern), I have evidently not yet made it on the list of potential appointees to the Obama team. This is much to be regretted, not for any reasons of personal ambition, which I abjure completely, but because in . . . . Continue Reading »
My former colleague Ryan T. Anderson has a piece today on The Public Discourse in which he outlines how Princeton’s Anscombe Society has had success in responding to the hook-up culture on college campuses: by arguing for chastity, marriage, and the family on rational grounds. Read the whole . . . . Continue Reading »
Of all the major actions President Obama has taken since assuming office, his decision to overturn the Mexico City Policy remains his least popular, with only 35 percent of Americans approving of the move to fund international organizations who provide abortions, the most recent USA Today/Gallup . . . . Continue Reading »
Representative Peter King from New York has introduced a bill that would require that all camera phones emit “a tone or other sound audible within a reasonable radius of the phone” when a picture is taken. The idea is that this will prevent sexual predators from surreptitiously taking . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Slate , Howard Gardner of Harvard University reviews Dacher Keltner’s Born to Be Good . In his book, Keltner argues that “human beings have survived as a species, and have gained dominion over the planet, because we have managed to control our most destructive and hostile . . . . Continue Reading »
This is the second post on the review of SHS in the current American Journal of Bioethics. We have already highlighted the positives that Yale University bioethicist found with SHS, and now I would like to reply to his criticisms. Latham writes:To be clear: This [human exceptionalism] is a . . . . Continue Reading »
If you’re an undergraduate or graduate student looking for a fruitful way to spend two weeks of the summer, consider the Witherspoon Institute’s First Principles Seminar: What are the fundamental principles and premises that inform and guide human behavior at both the individual and . . . . Continue Reading »
A headline in the Sunday Times yesterday reads ” Two Children Should be Limit, Says Green Guru. ” The guru in question is Jonathon Porritt, who chairs the British government’s Sustainable Development Commission. According to the Times article, Porritt says that couples who have . . . . Continue Reading »
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