One of the perks of being friends with a world famous author is that you get to read advance copies of his books. Last month, I had that great pleasure with Dean Koontz’s newest novel, Your Heart Belongs to Me.I knew going in that the story is about a man who needs a heart transplant. It is . . . . Continue Reading »
“The scientists” are whining—are these people never satisfied?—again! This time it is about their inability to buy human eggs, a “problem” they complain is impeding human cloning.A story in the San Diego Union Tribune, carries the scientists’ complaint. . . . . Continue Reading »
Augustinian Christianity is clearly the foundation of what became the medieval and modern liberal traditions—the traditions that separated the person or the individual from all the monistic pretensions of either the (natural) philosopher or the city. As the civic religionist Rousseau . . . . Continue Reading »
The peculiar modern obsession with celebrity voyeurism is typically unattractive but often instructive: one can argue that our preoccupation with fame signifies the persistant recognition of Aristotle’s magnanimity, albeit in a deformed version, against the regnant leveling tendencies of . . . . Continue Reading »
German historians are compiling the names of the people with developmental disabilities murdered (in addition to tens of thousands of people with physical disabilities) in the German Euthanasia Holocaust circa 1939-1945. From the story: German historians have started compiling a central register of . . . . Continue Reading »
Readers of SHS may recall the Lauren Richardson situation: Lauren experience a catastrophic brain injury and was diagnosed as in a persistent vegetative state. Her mother wanted to remove her tube sustenance and her father resisted. Litigation ensued. At the 11th hour, Lauren’s parents have . . . . Continue Reading »
If memory serves I was sitting in sociology class, just after lunch, on this day forty-four years ago, when the loud speaker at the front of the class crackled. I leaned forward to the girl sitting in front of me, Patty Brennan, and whispered, "They’ve shot the president!" She . . . . Continue Reading »
While performing my bi-weekly survey of what the transhumanists are up to, I happened upon this little gem . From the abstract: Postgenderism is an extrapolation of ways that technology is eroding the biological, psychological and social role of gender, and an argument for why the erosion of binary . . . . Continue Reading »
One tragic suicide and one ridiculous story in the last week illustrate the impact that cyberspace is having on our interconnectedness and mutual concern. The first is the horrible case of a college student who committed suicide in front of his webcam so it could be witnessed by the multitudes. From . . . . Continue Reading »
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