Number 14 ~ Fall 2006

Correspondence
The Beginning of Life; An Unbalanced Diagnosis; The Enhancement Wars; Three Cheers for Craftsmanship
Essays
The Paradox of Military Technology
Max Boot on American power and American vulnerability
The Moral Challenge of Modern Science
Yuval Levin on politics, ethics, and the scientific worldview
Commerce of the Body
The Case for Kidney Markets
Benjamin Hippen on how to solve the kidney shortage
Is the Body Property?
Peter Augustine Lawler on rights, dignity, and organ sales
Reviews and Reconsiderations
Beyond the Right to Life
Wilfred M. McClay on the “Party of Death”
The Agony of Atomic Genius
Algis Valiunas on the tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Cloning’s Apologist
Caitrin Nicol on Ian Wilmut’s defense of research cloning
C. S. Lewis Goes to the Laboratory
Thomas W. Merrill on the science and faith of Francis Collins
State of the Art
Too Speculative?
Getting Serious About Nuclear Terrorism
Henry Sokolski
The Dotcomrade
The Many Faces of Online Friendship
Brian Boyd
The Touchy-Feely Laboratory
The Latest Angst About Women in Science
Christine Rosen
Space Deals
The Coming of the New Space Industry
Rand Simberg
Eco-Censorship
The Effort to Thwart the Climate Change Debate
Iain Murray
Techno-Horror in Hollywood
Japanese Anxieties, American Style
Sonny Bunch






