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Culture Watch — Cosmetic Surgery and the Customized Self

Cosmetic surgery is becoming a rite of passage for many women -- a way to reinvent the self by the skill of a surgeon's knife. This is a major cultural shift, as cosmetic surgery is transformed from an eccentricity of the rich into a new normal for m ...

September 14, 2005

The Roberts Hearings and the Battle of Ideas

Confirmation hearings for the nomination of Judge John G. Roberts as the next Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court began Monday in Washington. At long last, the real battle of ideas now begins. This is an argument worth having, for it goes to the ...

September 13, 2005

Is Same-Sex Marriage Inevitable?

The furor over California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's promised veto of the same-sex marriage bill that passed the state's legislature has set off a firestorm of outrage among gay rights activists and the nation's liberal commentators. Imbedded w ...

September 12, 2005

Jonathan Edwards for the Age of Therapy?

Allen C. Guelzo has written an insightful and argumentative review essay on recent interpretations of Jonathan Edwards. In "Unpalatable to Modern Sensibilities," Guelzo reviews Jonathan Edwards: America's Evangelical, by Philip F. Gura -- and then go ...

September 10, 2005

Delaying Marriage — Another Look at the Costs

Danielle Crittenden, author of What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us, has written a must-read article, "The Cost of Delaying Marriage." The article has recently been republished by Boundless.org. This is an issue I address often, and I appreciate Crittende ...

September 10, 2005

The Brave New World of Designer Babies?

Scientists in the United Kingdom have been pressing the ethical boundaries in biomedical research for some time now, but an announcement made today takes us further toward the posthuman future many of us have been dreading. Even as Britain's Human Fe ...

September 9, 2005

‘Decivilization’ Not as Far Away as We Think?

Historian Timothy Garton Ash argues that what he calls "decivilization" lies very close to the surface of human life. Add a natural disaster or human tragedy, and the base instincts of human nature soon triumph over order and respect for other human ...

September 8, 2005

Gov. Schwarzenegger Promises to Veto Same-Sex Marriage Bill

From The San Francisco Chronicle: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, under growing pressure from his conservative supporters, promised Wednesday to veto the gay-marriage bill passed less than a day earlier by the Democrat-led Legislature. The Legislature's ...

September 8, 2005

California Assembly Passes Gay Marriage Bill

From The Los Angeles Times: The California Legislature made history Tuesday as the Assembly passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage. With no votes to spare, California's lawmakers became the first in the United States to act without a court order ...

September 7, 2005

Bad Theology Watch — Niall Ferguson’s Naturalism

Niall Ferguson -- our greatest living historian of empire, and a generally sound thinker -- really misses the mark when he addresses the meaning of Hurricane Katrina. Writing in The Telegraph [London], Ferguson [a professor of history at Harvard Univ ...

September 6, 2005