Number 15 ~ Winter 2007

Correspondence
Principle, Prudence, and the “Party of Death”
Essays
The Hydrogen Hoax
Robert Zubrin on energy charlatans and the politicians who love them
In Whose Image Shall We Die?
Eric Cohen on living well and dying well
The Language of Nature
Steve Talbott on how science drains meaning from experience
The Scientific Mind of Ben Franklin
Jerry Weinberger on America’s first Baconian
Reviews and Reconsiderations
The Red Plague
Cheryl Miller on how China bungled SARS
Psychiatry’s Healer
Philip J. Overby on the medical humanism of Paul McHugh
Our Childless Dystopia
James Bowman on P. D. James’s The Children of Men, as novel and film
Immortality Lite
Ross Douthat on the sublime and the foolish in Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain
Theory Wars, Again
Matthew B. Crawford on reason and relativism in the academy
State of the Art
Sucker-Me Elmo
What Children Learn from Their Robo-Toys
Christine Rosen
The Electoral Politics of Stem Cells
Democratic Myths of 2006, GOP Realities of 2008
Yuval Levin
Cloning Down Under
An Australian Reversal on Embryo Research
Michael Casey
Dead Body Porn
The Grotesqueries of the “Body World” Exhibit
Thomas S. Hibbs
Back to the Moon, To Stay?
NASA’s Plans for a Lunar Base
Jeff Foust







