Number 17 ~ Summer 2007
Correspondence
China’s Aims in Space; Debating Nanoethics
Essays
Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism
Christine Rosen on MySpace, Facebook, and the costs of social networking
Human Dignity and Public Bioethics
Gilbert Meilaender on dignity as a useful concept
Melancholy’s Whole Physician
Algis Valiunas reads Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy
Heroism, Modernism, and the Utopian Impulse
James Bowman on cowboys, communists, and dreams of perfection
Reviews and Reconsiderations
Drug Addiction and the Open Society
Lee Harris on freedom and self-mastery
Parenthood at Any Price
Cheryl Miller reviews Liza Mundy’s Everything Conceivable
Intimations of the Soul
Paul J. Cella III on idolatry in the Age of Machines
Devaluing Science
Jonathan H. Adler on scientists and politics
State of the Art
‘Less Morally Problematic Alternatives’
Toward a Stem Cell Solution
Yuval Levin
Soldiers for Rent
The Private Contractors Fighting America’s Wars
Habib Moody
The Man in the Moon
Remembering Loren Eiseley
Stephen Bertman
Faces Disappearing
The Implications of Cystic Fibrosis Screening
Richard W. Sams II
