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Britain to Legalize Human Cloning?

Will Britain legalize human cloning? The Daily Telegraph reports today that Dr. Ian Wilmut, the lead researcher in the cloning of "Dolly," the first cloned mammal, is now behind the effort -- even as he had steadfastly opposed such efforts in the pa ...

June 5, 2006

The Illusion of Addiction?

"Heroin doesn't hook people; rather, people hook heroin." Theodore Dalrymple, a psychiatrist and skilled essayist, has written an important article on the illusion of addiction. In "Poppycock,' published in the May 25, 2006 edition of The Wall Street ...

June 5, 2006

The “In-Between Generation” — What is Its Legacy?

Philip Marchand argues that the generation born between between the G.I. Generation and the Baby Boomers set the stage for the rebellions of the 1960s and the great social transformations of the 1970s. Writing in The Toronto Sun, Marchand argues tha ...

June 5, 2006

B.C. and A.D. or B.C.E. and C.E.? The Battle Over History

The Kentucky State School Board has placed itself at the center of an expanding controversy as it has debated replacing references to B.C. and A.D. with B.C.E. and C.E. in social studies materials. Of course, B.C. refers to "Before Christ" and A.D. ...

June 2, 2006

Oprah’s America — The Centrality of the Self

Week by week, Lee Siegel of The New Republic offers some of the most insightful cultural analysis to be found anywhere. In this week's issue, he considers the meaning of Oprah Winfrey, arguing that Oprah represents the apex of television as a cultur ...

June 1, 2006

Introducing the Lohasians — The New Face of the New Age

Newsweek introduces its readers to the movement it calls the "Lohasians" in the magazine's June 5, 2006 edition. According to Steven Waldman of Beliefnet.com, "Lohasian" is an acronym for "Lifestyles of Heath and Sustainability." Here's how the Loh ...

May 31, 2006

The Pornography Plague — A British View

According to a new study, British men lead all others in the consumption of online pornography. The study was commissioned by The Independent [London] and the results seem to have shocked the paper's reporters, Anthony Barnes and Sophie Goodchild: ...

May 31, 2006

Modesty and Fashion — Sworn Enemies?

Is the world of fashion the implacable enemy of modesty in dress? Pia Catton considers this question in a most interesting essay published in the current edition of In Character. In "Dressing for the Occasion: When is Allure a Fashion Slip?," she arg ...

May 30, 2006

New Attitude Conference

I had the privilege of addressing the New Attitude 2006 conference in Louisville Monday, leading a session on a Christian understanding of sexuality in light of contemporary challenges. It was a tremendous experience -- just seeing all those highly ...

May 30, 2006

Thinking About the Enron Convictions

The conviction of Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skillings is an historic development in the world of business and in the field of criminal prosecution, but the whole case raises more questions than these convictions can answer. Some immed ...

May 26, 2006