Copulation Without Population
by M. D. AeschlimanThe Wanting Seed is a guide for understanding our world today—especially the realities and implications of modern materialism, empiricism, urbanization, and utilitarianism. Continue Reading »
The Desecration of Man
by Carl R. TruemanThis year marks the eightieth anniversary of the lectures that became C. S. Lewis’s book The Abolition of Man. Speaking to an audience at the height of the Second World War, Lewis identified the central problem of the modern age: The world was losing its sense of what it meant to be human. As . . . . Continue Reading »
Surgery is the New Sex
by Justin LeeThe villains intent on snuffing out evolutionary adaptation through technocratic means are battling against nature itself. They are, in the name of preserving human nature, redefining it according to arbitrary will. Continue Reading »
The Politics of Unhappiness
by Ronald W. DworkinA traffic jam, a shoe that pinches: It takes very little to ruin a nice day. Nothing can please you then, and your judgment is affected. At first glance, unpleasantness and the resulting peevishness have no political or economic significance. These experiences are commonplace, part of the . . . . Continue Reading »
The Impossibility of Christian Transhumanism
by Wesley J. SmithThe transhumanist worldview and the Christian faith are incompatible. Continue Reading »
Postnatural Intelligence
by David Lloyd DusenburyFrankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus belongs to the literature of the uncanny. But the young Mary Shelley who wrote it—or rather, the teenaged Mary Godwin who sketched it in a summerhouse near Geneva—was nothing if not canny. Her 1818 debut novel was and still is hugely . . . . Continue Reading »
What’s Love Got to Do with Transhumanism?
by Wesley J. SmithTranshumanism operates under the mistaken belief that intelligence is “the most precious and powerful resource in existence.” Continue Reading »
Our Outdated Debates
by Jessica KeatingThanks to modern technology and transhumanism, our familiar forms of argument about abortion are becoming obsolete. Continue Reading »
Brave New World Should Be an Election Issue
by Wesley J. SmithWith so much humanity-altering power being developed, where are the democratic debates about whether we should permit human beings to be designed, manufactured, and subjected to methods of quality control? Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousTeachersIn his “Re-Educate for America” (November), Malcolm Rivers identifies correctly the cultural hegemony that undergirds the educational establishment (and the leadership class) in America. A decade ago, as a New York City Teaching Fellow (a program in lockstep with Teach for America), I . . . . Continue Reading »
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