March 22, 2004
The Democratization of Beauty
Mention plastic surgery and the more judgmental among us immediately rattle off a list of traits its devotees probably...
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March 22, 2004
The Dilemmas of German Bioethics
In 1999, Peter Sloterdijk, a professor of aesthetics and one of Germany’s most prominent intellectuals, lit off a...
March 22, 2004
The Legacy of Nazi Medicine
Toward the beginning of “Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race,” the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s new...
March 22, 2004
Technology and the Constitution
O. Carter Snead on how new technologies affect judicial interpretation
March 22, 2004
Nuclear 1914: The Next Big Worry
The next use of nuclear weapons, if followed quickly by others, is nothing the United States or its closest friends...
March 22, 2004
Getting Serious About IVF
The President’s Council on Bioethics, chaired by Leon R. Kass, has been up and running for less than three years...
March 22, 2004
Memory and the Movies
There are at least two good reasons why Hollywood is so fond of movies about memory loss. One is that the movies are...
January 1, 2004
Romance in the Information Age
When Samuel F. B. Morse sent his first long-distance telegraph message in 1844, he chose words that emphasized both the...
January 1, 2004
Science and Self-Government
Try typing the words “President’s Council” or “presidential commission” into the search engine on your...
January 1, 2004
A More Child-Like Science
Why do leaves turn red? Where does the sun go at night? What made Whiskers die? Will Mommy die sometime, too? Children...