Number 24 ~ Spring 2009
Essays
AIDS Relief and Moral Myopia
Travis Kavulla on African culture and the public health community
Embryos in Limbo
Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill on IVF and indecision about nascent life
What and When Is Death?
Alan Rubenstein on knowing human living to define human dying
Technocracy and Populism
Ivan Kenneally on President Obama and putting politics behind us
Reviews and Reconsiderations
Is Water a Human Right?
Kendra Okonski on market solutions to the world’s “water crisis”
In Search of Chinese Science
John Derbyshire on Joseph Needham, sinologist and scientist
The Virtual Public Square
Alan Jacobs reviews Richard John Neuhaus’s final book
The True Face of Digital Democracy
Sebastian Waisman on the Internet and civic engagement
State of the Art
The Road to Rationing
How ‘Medicare Plus’ Will Destroy Private Insurance
Paul Howard and David Gratzer
Keeping Books Safe
A Bad Law Threatens Our Past
Elizabeth Mullaney Nicol
The Rise of Cyber-Schools
Online Education and Its Enemies
Liam Julian
Disability Politics
Liberals, Conservatives, and the Disability-Rights Movement
Ari Ne’eman
At the Gates of a Magical Garden
Digital Technologies and the Jumbling of Time
G. Anthony Gorry
Down in Flames
Media ‘Space Experts’ Flub the Shoot-Down Story
James E. Oberg
