People might wonder what it’s like to be a junior fellow here at First Things . “What’s the best part?” such an imaginary interlocutor would say. The power? The fame? The money? The sex appeal? Without question, junior fellows enjoy all of those. But more than that, you get . . . . Continue Reading »
Once again the media are caught with their, if you will excuse the pun, pants down. A study was released a week or so ago that claimed there is no difference in the initial onset of sex between teenagers who took abstinence pledges and other teenagers. Sounds bad for promoting sexual restraint, . . . . Continue Reading »
Each year, the Center for Bioethics and Culture asks me to make predictions for the upcoming year about what can be expected in the field of bioethics. I didn’t do too badly last year—although when my head told me I-1000 would pass legalizing assisted suicide in WA, and my heart told me . . . . Continue Reading »
Big Science’s latest attempt to rule out the will. . . . . Continue Reading »
Stephen Greenspan is a psychologist who specializes in gullibility at the University of Connecticut, wrote an article this week using his expertise to understand why so many people—himself included—fell for Bernie Madoff’s chicanery. After a fascinating historical and psychological . . . . Continue Reading »
And here I was thinking that I was the only one: . . . . Continue Reading »
You must have seen the headlines this week. “Virginity Pledges Don’t Stop Teen Sex.” “Premarital Abstinence Pledges Ineffective, Study Finds.” Or how about this one: “Virginity Pledges Fail to Trump Teen Lust in Look at Older Data.” But William McGurn at . . . . Continue Reading »
The op-ed page of the Washington Post is like Forest Gump’s box of chocolates—you never know what you’re gonna get—and the final day of 2008 was no exception. In ” Darkness in Qassam-Land ,” by Julia Chaitin, a senior lecturer in the Department of Social Work at . . . . Continue Reading »
I gave a speech on Sunday hitting on the threats to human exceptionalism. I brought up my concern about deep ecology’s call to reduce humankind to under 1 billion, as well as Spain passing the Great Ape Project, Switzerland’s “plant dignity,” and Ecuador’s granting . . . . Continue Reading »
Ah, our friend Doug Kmiec has recently been revealed to have given yet more examples of the pattern that made him famous during the Obama campaign. The law professor David Kopel points out that, in the Heller gun-control case, Kmiec signed the February 2008 amicus brief by “Former Senior . . . . Continue Reading »
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