Ryan T. Anderson

A few weeks ago, William Saletan reviewed the new book Embryo in the New York Times Book Review . Robert George and Chris Tollefsen (the co-authors of Embryo ) replied the next day in an article for National Review Online . Saletan replied later that week with an article on Slate . Now George and . . . . Continue Reading »

A week or so ago I mentioned some summer programs that the Witherspoon Institute is putting on . Here’s another summer program that might interest young readers. I was a Publius Fellow this past summer and highly recommend it. The Claremont Institute is now accepting applications for the 2008 . . . . Continue Reading »

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23227651/ (Well, one comment, this guy is head pastor at “Relevant Church” . . . ) . . . . Continue Reading »

In Saturday’s Wall Street Journal , Peter Berkowitz had an interesting op/ed on ” The Neocons and Iraq .” His thesis? The neocons weren’t neoconish enough. Hardly a new observation, but the piece is worth reading. Here’s a taste: The Moynihan report and the Kirkpatrick . . . . Continue Reading »

I missed it earlier in the week, but this column in The New Republic by literary editor Leon Wieseltier shouldn’t go unnoticed. Here’s his opening: What you think of a presidential candidate is in large measure determined by what you think of the world. Different circumstances call for . . . . Continue Reading »

Two new papers have just been published documenting further advances with induced pluripotent stem cells—-stem cells that are “embryonic-like” but that are not derived from embryos. When the announcement was made about the successful attempts at creating induced pluripotent stem . . . . Continue Reading »

What was common sense for my grandmother. Science Daily reports : Active father figures have a key role to play in reducing behaviour problems in boys and psychological problems in young women, according to a review published in the February issue of Acta Paediatrica. Swedish researchers also found . . . . Continue Reading »

LifeSiteNews reports : 65-year-old Raleane “Rae” Kupferschmidt’s relatives were told by doctors that she was “brain dead” after she had suffered a massive cerebral haemorrhage in mid-January. Her family had taken her home to die and were in the process of grieving and . . . . Continue Reading »

David Brooks’ column today offers advice for ” Fresh Start Conservatism .” This jumped out at me: The first group of policies would foster two-parent families. If all American families looked like the intact middle-class ones, we wouldn’t have nationally low education . . . . Continue Reading »

Douglas Kmiec—-former dean of the law school at the Catholic University of America, the current chair of constitutional law at Pepperdine University, and the man who chaired Mitt Romney’s Committee on the Constitution—-wrote this article for Slate : ” Reaganites for Obama? . . . . Continue Reading »