The CBC asked me to comment on the ethical implications of the recent scientific announcement that they have implanted an artificially created genome into a bacteria. My main take is that the time to regulate this emerging field is now, not later, while we have time to deliberate and create . . . . Continue Reading »
An interesting exercise in church-state relations: Amish Farming Draws Rare Government Scrutiny . Their cows generate heaps of manure that easily washes into streams and flows onward into the Chesapeake Bay. And the Environmental Protection Agency . . . is determined to crack down. The farmers . . . . Continue Reading »
The always interesting economics writer Megan McArdle notes that she is getting married on Saturday: We are finally on the brink of that happy moment that every girl dreams of: a qualified change in family status under section 125 of the tax code. See why I like her? Our congratulations and . . . . Continue Reading »
“You can be an agnostic or an atheist when it comes to religion but it’s much more difficult when we’re talking about the World Cup,” notes CCN editor Dave Schechter in The Religion of Football . He goes on to make the usual comparisons and ends with the platitude “Just . . . . Continue Reading »
Thanks to all for making last week’s event with Michael Wyschogrod a success! We had quite an engaging discussion about Prof. Wyschogrod’s proposal in his recent article published in the May issue of FIRST THINGS: ” A King in Israel .” Keep reading FT Online to hear about . . . . Continue Reading »
In an important and insightful essay over at The New Republic , David Rieff makes some particularly astute observations about larger implications of the diplomatic crisis that erupted in the wake of the Israeli confrontation at sea with the Free Gaza flotilla. There is little doubt that, as a . . . . Continue Reading »
The not so nice NICE has done it again, refusing to cover an effective life-extending drug called Lapatinib, approved by the FDA since 2007 (meaning it isn’t experimental), that can extend the lives of late stage breast cancer patients. And in this cruelty, is seen vividly the Obamacare . . . . Continue Reading »
“Follow the Islamic way to save the world,” Prince Charles urges environmentalists . To which Mark Steyn replies , “The Prince of Wales brings together the two great religions of our age.” A little over the top, but it does remind one of the extent to which feminism has . . . . Continue Reading »
While I’m not much of a soccer enthusiast, I’m a loyal fan of the sport of trash-talking. Worthy matches are hard to find, but an email exchange between the British Embassy in Washington and the U.S. Embassy in London about the upcoming America/England World Cup match reveal that the . . . . Continue Reading »
What can nonbelievers learn from religious art? Quite a lot, says Aaron Rosen in an article in The Humanist : This is not simply to say that all religious expressions are artistic. But what religious symbols can do, more powerfully than any other, is reveal a horizon of meaning towards . . . . Continue Reading »
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