I have a piece up on CNS News.Com on the renewed drive to dismantle the dead donor rule that requires vital organ donors to be dead before procurement. From my column:Oh-oh: Here they come. For years, organ transplant ethicists and some in the bioethics community have agitated to increase the supply . . . . Continue Reading »
The American Principles Project has launched a new website— ExpelJennings.org —dedicated to ousting Kevin Jennings from the Department of Education. Robert George, the group’s founder, explains the radical agenda supported by Jennings: Children don’t need to be learning about . . . . Continue Reading »
They are so obvious—but too often, it works: If any limits are placed on experiments or funding of biotechnology, “the scientists” and their media apologists wring their hands, and warn darkly of a “brain drain” that will destroy competitiveness, cause people to die, or . . . . Continue Reading »
Arnold Kling explains that support for markets and business are not the same thing: Consider the following matrix: Pro-Business Anti-Business Pro-Market Anti-Market The point is that there really are four separate categories, not just the two pro’s and the two anti’s. On health care . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s been a not-unexciting week around here, but let’s see what’s happening in the wide world: Russia Fined, Refuses to Recognize Scientology as ReligionEpiscopalians Get Spiritual, Grow BasilChristian Filmmakers to Focus on Making Good MoviesHistory Too Kind to Confucius? . . . . Continue Reading »
Ross Douthat reviews Karen Armstrong’s The Case for God : This is an eloquent case for the ancient roots of the liberal approach to faith, and my summary does not do justice to its subtleties. But it deserves to be heavily qualified. Armstrong concedes that the religious story she’s . . . . Continue Reading »
What a debacle: California has borrowed hundreds of millions to fund ESCR/human cloning, almost $300 million of which went into the most expensive, luxurious buildings that money can buy—all to “show Bush.” Fine, but now we are worse than broke, we are in danger of being a . . . . Continue Reading »
As Gene Veith notes , what you consider a no-frills health insurance policy may be what the government considers a “Cadillac” plan: To help fund the proposed health reform measures, lawmakers are thinking about imposing a stiff tax–up to 35%–on so-called “Cadillac” . . . . Continue Reading »
A philosophical vindication of Judaism based on IV Maccabees: To someone raised with a notion of philosophy that is Greek, along the lines of Plato and Aristotle, there is something a bit odd about traditional Judaism, with its insistence on a large number of little restrictions on things like . . . . Continue Reading »
is the title of a new Spengler essay posted this morning at Asia Times Online. Keynesian stimulus was a terrible idea; combine it with nearly free money and you create a positive-feedback loop between the Treasury deficit and the banking system. It’s going to be a long, long three years . . . . Continue Reading »
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