January 6, 2015
Regarding Life at the Beginning
Unborn children are hidden from our view and totally dependent on us. Yet the debate over abortion usually treats the...
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January 6, 2015
January 6, 2015
In Defense of Prejudice, Sort of
Prejudice is the Enlightenment’s most detested foe, the vampire that withers in the light of Reason. But an ambitious...
January 17, 2014
The Hollowness of Radical Bioethics
In their new book, Genes, Cells and Brains, Hilary and Steven Rose offer valuable critiques of biological reductionism...
January 17, 2014
When Finance Met Physics
Stock trading has become a form of mathematical modeling, with sometimes disastrous results. R. McKay Stangler reviews...
September 4, 2013
Bringing Mind to Matter
Raymond Tallis on Thomas Nagel’s defiance of the materialist mainstream
September 4, 2013
The Conservative Record on Environmental Policy
There was no love lost for the Environmental Protection Agency during the 2012 Republican presidential primary season....
April 12, 2013
Criminal Elements
On "Breaking Bad," terminally ill high school chemistry teacher Walter White transforms himself into a drug kingpin....
April 12, 2013
Experiments in Democracy
In his 2012 book Uncontrolled, Jim Manzi recommends that policymakers conduct more experiments and rely less on...
April 11, 2013
The Imperfectionist
Let’s make government smart. “Like” this page to save the world. There’s an app for that. These are the mantras...