January 21, 2011
The Digital Law Practice
There is a scene in the movie First Monday in October that depicts two justices of the Supreme Court arguing in...
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January 21, 2011
The Untapped Potential of the NPT
What is the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) good for? Most foreign ministries, including those of Iran and the...
January 12, 2011
Slacking as Self-Discovery
Last August, the New York Times Magazine inspired a national moment of navel-gazing when it ran a cover story on a new...
January 12, 2011
April 9, 2010
‘The Unique Worth of an Individual Human Life’
The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network selected Leon R. Kass, M.D. to receive its Paul Ramsey Award for 2010 —...
April 8, 2010
Going Nowhere
Saint Augustine famously wrote in his Confessions that, as a young man, he had prayed, “Lord make me chaste, but not...
April 8, 2010
A Regrettable Reform
Just a few weeks before the signing ceremony, President Barack Obama’s dream of enacting sweeping health reform...
April 8, 2010
Claude Lévi-Strauss, RIP
Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French anthropologist who died last year at the age of one hundred, was for decades a...
April 8, 2010
Missing the Big Picture
The history of the technology of television has been a continuous evolution toward ever more intense stimulation. The...
April 8, 2010
The Case for Boredom
Ours is an uncivil age. Entertainers rationalize incivility as part of the show; your offense only indicates a...