The Problematic History of Toleration Evan Haefeli, Immanent Frame The New Science of Hardwired Identity Sasha Issenberg, New York Magazine Dolan: Mormonism No Obstacle for Catholic Voters Alex Roarty, National Journal Paul Ryan: “Faith” Helped Shape Budget Plan Tim . . . . Continue Reading »
or learn to live with him anyway. There was this moment, just before Michigan, when it seemed possible to avert a Romney nomination. That doesn’t mean that we would have gotten a Santorum nomination. If Santorum had won Michigan, it is possible that Romney’s’s . . . . Continue Reading »
I oppose off-label prescribing. I oppose states legalizing medical marijuana when it should be done by changing the Controlled Substances Act. I oppose novel interventions upon the disabled, such as “Ashley’s Treatment,” without proper regulatory studies and approval. I would . . . . Continue Reading »
For students interested in joining lights such as Michael Novak, Robert Royal, Bill Saunders, Joe Wood, and Fr. Derek Cross in eastern Slovakia to explore the political, economic, and moral-cultural dimensions of free society in the thought of Popes Benedict XVI and John Paul II, the Federalist . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at the Corner, Maggie Gallagher (no stranger to controversy herself) wades into the Derbyshire affair, writing forcefully in favor of clear, absolute, and binding moral lines against racist sentiment in conservative precincts: I don’t know in the post-web era if . . . . Continue Reading »
I keep an eye on the anti humanism in radical environmentalism in my work defending human exceptionalism. I have noted here and elsewhere that the ecocide brigades held a mock trial of fictional Alberta tar sands executives and—surprise!—found them guilty of extracting oil for . . . . Continue Reading »
Elizabeth Kolbert has written a piece for the New Yorker that sketches several contemporary ethical analyses of procreation, leading with Charles Knowlton’s 1832 Fruits of Philosophy: The Private Companion of Young Married People, by a Physician , one of the first books to introduce a . . . . Continue Reading »
C. Ben Mitchell challenges those who propose to re-engineer the human species : Here is the argument offered by Matthew Liao, Anders Sandberg, and Rebecca Roache. Climate change is the result of human corruption of the environment—so-called anthropogenic causes. Climate change affects food . . . . Continue Reading »
My wonderful friend Mark Pickup has rerun an essay on his blog Human Life Matters by Dr. Dianne Irving on the history of bioethics. Irving was present at the birth of the field, dissents strongly from the direction in which it went, and was very helpful to me in researching my own . . . . Continue Reading »
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