As promised last week, my extended piece on Cass Sunstein supporting granting animals “standing” to sue in their own names, is now out in the Weekly Standard. From the column:Imagine you are a cattle rancher looking for liability insurance. You meet with your broker, who, as . . . . Continue Reading »
What does it say about the trajectory of the universe when David P. Goldman and Robert Reich appear to be saying the same thing about the economy?Probably nothing good.Goldman has been calling it a “zombie economy” for months:It’s not about getting a recovery going. That’s . . . . Continue Reading »
The following is another exerpt from Caritas in Veritate : Sometimes globalization is viewed in fatalistic terms, as if the dynamics involved were the product of anonymous impersonal forces or structures independent of the human will. In this regard it is useful to remember that while globalization . . . . Continue Reading »
Futile Care Theory is bearing down on us now like a...well you pick the cliche`. But it isn’t a joke. If you want treatment, and the bioethics committee of a hospital thinks it is “non beneficial,” your stated desires mean very little.Now the San Diego Medical Association has . . . . Continue Reading »
Ryan Sayre Patrico brings up a controversy here that is beginning to buzz around Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It concerns a statement she makes in an interview to be published this Sunday in the NYT Magazine , in which she opines that she once thought Roe v Wad e was about stopping the growth . . . . Continue Reading »
Much is being made in certain circles of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ginsberg stating in an interview to be published in the next issue of the New York Times Magazine, that she thought Roe v. Wade would be used to reduce the birth rate of certain populations “that we don’t want too many . . . . Continue Reading »
Christianity Today just published my take on Pope Benedict XVI’s latest encyclical, Caritas in Veritate . Here is an excerpt. Although mainstream media outlets have already spun this encyclical as one that focuses on the global economic crisis—and it most certainly does address . . . . Continue Reading »
A bill has been introduced to prevent chimps and other great apes from being used in medical experiments, and to provide animals currently used for that purpose sanctuary. From “Bedrooms for Bonzo” by Neil Munro in the National Journal (July 11, 2009—no link). From the . . . . Continue Reading »
Neuroethics is a radical new field within bioethics that, from what I have seen so far, seeks to rubber stamp every brave new world manipulation of the human being imaginable.That point aside, one area of discourse within the field is an attempt to precisely define the nature and workings of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Did Moses have a black wife? In the latest issue of the Criswell Theological Review J. Daniel Hays argues that “the case is extremely strong that Moses married a black Cushite woman from the Cushite civilization south of Egypt.” What would normally be of minor historical interest can . . . . Continue Reading »
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