The Necessity of Tradition
“If a society wishes to find a way of ensuring that newly emergent and valuable techniques are passed on and preserved, its members must feel themselves under an ethical obligation to leave the best possible world not only for their children, but also for their grandchildren.”
The Truth about Harvard
Ross Douthat looks at the effects of postmodern academic theory on the humanities. “The retreat into irrelevance is visible all across the humanities curriculum.”
The embryo question
Robert P. George and Patrick Lee, Eric Cohen, Leon R. Kass, Yuval Levin, and Amy Laura Hall examine the debate about whether or not human embryos should be destroyed for stem cell research.
Art and the loss of transcendence
Suzi Gablik looks at how modern and postmodern artists have struggled with living in modern and postmodern societies in which there is no public vocabulary for the sacred.
Free trade zone for preferences
Philip Turner examines “the subversion of Christian belief and practice by the logic of autonomous individualism”