I was interviewed a few weeks ago by NRO’s John Miller about my forthcoming book, A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy. We discuss the difference between animal rights and animal welfare, human exceptionalism, the ongoing devaluation of human life, and about my friendship with novelist Dean . . . . Continue Reading »
So the first book we’re reading for my seminar on bioethics is BIOTECHNOLOGY: OUR FUTURE AS HUMAN BEINGS AND CITIZENS, edited by Sean D. Sutton. This is undoubtedly the most balanced collection of essays by the leading public intellectuals in our debate over the implications of the coming . . . . Continue Reading »
The New York Times reports on a study that explains the reason so many academics are liberal is because . . . academics are typecast as being liberal? The overwhelmingly liberal tilt of university professors has been explained by everything from outright bias to higher I.Q. scores. Now new research . . . . Continue Reading »
A Michigan company has been i nscribing references to New Testament Bible passages on high-powered rifle sights provided to the United States military. . . . . Continue Reading »
This movie has the cult following of Star Wars in 1978. It looks like people are going to see it multiple times. It is visually fascinating. But I’m less concerned about the technology and more concerned about the plot and theme. It has all the earmarks of ... a . . . . Continue Reading »
The UK’s NICE reliably illustrates the peril we will face of Obamacare’s form of centralized control is allowed to take hold. From the story:The Government’s drugs rationing body, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice), has provisionally said that it does . . . . Continue Reading »
A manufacturer of optics for US military arms apparently feels a need to stamp references to Bible verses on them. And how is this a good idea?Here’s a snippet from the story, with a link to the full story following:Trijicon confirmed to ABCNews.com that it adds the biblical codes to the . . . . Continue Reading »
Martin Luther King was one of the three primary inspirations in my formative years (the other two being Ralph Nader and JKF). He was all about expanding inclusion in the human community, and alas, we now see many in bioethics and in other disciplines seeking actively to shrink it by rejecting human . . . . Continue Reading »
The tremendously talented cartoonist—and animal rights zealot— Dan Piraro, stumbled into truth in this cartoon. Meat provides good and nutritious food for people at a very reasonable price. That is a tremendous benefit for society that animal rights believers will never talk people out . . . . Continue Reading »
Remember this game you played as a kid: The first player whispers a sentence to the next player and each player successively whispers what that player believes they heard to the next. The last player announces the statement to the entire group, which invariably has changed in a quite amusing ways . . . . Continue Reading »
Subscribe
Latest Issue
Support First Things
