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How Worldviews Work — An Urgent Illustration

Worldviews work at multiple levels in each individual. Every person operates out of a basic set of convictions about reality, truth, meaning, and how the world works. Disagreements between individuals and groups on controversial issues can almost alw ...

February 2, 2007

The Tragedy of Untethered Science — Chilling Examples

Science and technology, once detached from moral constraints, can and will produce nightmares. Untethered from moral accountability, science becomes a threat to human dignity, rather than a means to knowledge and human happiness. Consider these deve ...

February 1, 2007

A Haunting Specter — Modern Science Without Moral Limits

Modern science most often operates under a cover of moral neutrality. It is probably safe to assume that most Americans think of science as a morally neutral enterprise -- one that can as easily be used for good as for evil. Nevertheless, this impres ...

January 29, 2007

The Scary Logic of Peter Singer

Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the Center for Human Values at Princeton University, is one of the most controversial academics in the world -- and deservedly so. His views on human dignity, infanticide, and animal rights are so ...

January 26, 2007

New “On Faith” Posting: Presidential Candidates and Their Religious Beliefs

The current question at "On Faith," published by Newsweek and The Washington Post, is this: As the presidential campaign begins to take shape, do you think it is appropriate and or important for the candidates to express their personal religious vie ...

January 26, 2007

Why Sex Education is in Such a Mess

Controversies over sex education seem constantly to roil the waters in local communities. Parents often launch revolts against what they (most often rightly) see as ideologically driven efforts to subvert parental authority. A recent review essay pub ...

January 25, 2007

Defining Literacy Down — Do Your Kids Read Books?

Every generation worries about the next -- and usually with good reason. Here is another reason for worry about today's adolescents and young adults -- they don't read. That is a generalization, of course. But the generalization seems to be holding t ...

January 24, 2007

Dawkins Redux — Are the Atheists Already Winning?

The reactions to Richard Dawkins' blockbuster tract for atheism, The God Delusion, range from enthusiastic agreement to intellectual dismissal. Several of the most interesting reponses have come from his fellow scientists. This is certainly the case ...

January 23, 2007

Richard Dawkins — On a Mission to Convert

The New York Review of Books is one of the nation's most important intellectual journals. Its essays and reviews tend to be long, thoughtful, and influential. Unlike many other book review journals, it attracts big-name writers and authors as reviewe ...

January 23, 2007

A “Search and Destroy” Mission Against Down Syndrome Babies

"What did Jon Will and the more than 350,000 American citizens like him do to tick off the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists? It seems to want to help eliminate from America almost all of a category of citizens, a category that incl ...

January 22, 2007