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Passion and Prudence
As a longtime student of and occasional contributor to First Things , I am of course sympathetic to the general persuasion of R. R. Reno’s reflections: the desire to...
The Sacrifices of War
War and the American Difference: Theological Reflections on Violence and National Identity ? by Stanley Hauerwas Baker Academic, 224 pages, $19.99 It is hard to think about the future...
Nothing to See Here
Whatever happened to bioethics? The decade between the cloning of Dolly the sheep and the election of Barack Obama was rife with heated public arguments about embryo research, cloning,...
The God-Seeking Animal
On the cover of Being Human, the anthology of writings collected by the President’s Council on Bioethics under Leon Kass’s stewardship, there is a picture of a ballerina leaping...
The Ends of Science
Whenever I meet with scientists, I’m always struck by their optimism—and their discontent. Mostly they are optimists, excited by the latest findings: the newly isolated gene variant that may...
Orphans by Design
“Orphan” is one of those words that seems old-fashioned to modern ears”a word that evokes abject poverty in a Dickens novel. But in the years ahead, our reproductive technologies...
A Jewish-Catholic Bioethics?
The term “Judeo-Christian” has entered our civic vocabulary for good reason. On many of the deepest issues of human life”the meaning of sex, the dignity of the family, the...
Rival Immortalities
Human Dignity in the Biotech Century: A Christian Vision for Public Policy edited by Chrles W. Colson and Nigel M. De S. Cameron Intervarsity. 252 pp. $14 paper In...
