Return of the Cyborgs

by Mary Harrington

A newly-influential strand of feminism aims to free us from the inconvenience of embodiment. Continue Reading »

11 Jan 2022

Your Mind Uploaded in a Computer Would Not Be You

by Wesley J. Smith

Visionaries in Silicon Valley hope to defeat death by uploading human minds to computers.  Continue Reading »

2 Mar 2018

Trump is Letting Scientists Play God

by Wesley J. Smith

Recent advances in human cloning, synthetic biology, and CRISPR technology pose grave ethical questions—yet our president seems uninterested.  Continue Reading »

22 Dec 2017

Brave New World Should Be an Election Issue

by Wesley J. Smith

With so much humanity-altering power being developed, where are the democratic debates about whether we should permit human beings to be designed, manufactured, and subjected to methods of quality control? Continue Reading »

5 Aug 2016

Biotech Babies

by Jennifer Lahl and Christopher White

Suzanne is a forty-year-old mother of two who recently attended an Evangelical women’s Bible study in a suburb of Chicago. At this particular gathering the topic was infertility. The church had brought in two guest speakers. One spoke of how she and her husband had spent years unsuccessfully . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2014

Flagg Taylor on Totalitarianism’s Possible Route of Return

by Carl Scott

Flagg Taylor is a professor of political theory and such at Skidmore College, a friend, and the editor of the essential new collection on totalitarianism and dissent called The Great Lie. And now he’s blogging at Ricochet, home of the blogosphere’s best comments section, writing posts . . . . Continue Reading »

18 Oct 2011

Biotech: What to Expect

by Yuval Levin

Over the past fifteen years, the pro-life movement has succeeded in enacting some modest limitations on embryo-destructive research. Passage of these depended heavily on Republican control of the Congress, and their defense in the past eight years depended heavily on a Republican president willing . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2009

Most Biotechnology is Not Controversial

by Wesley J. Smith

Take this story as just one example: Scientists have used bacterial enzymes to convert one blood type into another, potentially ending the threat of blood shortages. There is a lot going on out there that is entirely laudable and has nothing whatsoever to do with embryonic stem cell research or . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2007

L’Chaim and Its Limits: Why Not Immortality?

by Leon R. Kass

You don’t have to be Jewish to drink L’Chaim, to lift a glass “To Life.” Everyone in his right mind believes that life is good and that death is bad. But Jews have always had an unusually keen appreciation of life, and not only because it has been stolen from them so often and so cruelly. . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2001