Category: Culture & Ethics
“River Rights” Would Impede Human Thriving
If the current trend continues, “river rights” will exert a tremendously destructive force.
No, Trees Are Not People Too
Novelist Barbara Kingsolver seriously asserts, in her review of a novel in which trees are characters, that they are people too.
This Is What Medical Authoritarianism Looks Like
The Alfie Evans saga continues to roil the U.K., and it is increasingly looking like the Terri Schiavo case.
Why the Animal/Nature Rights vs. Human Duties Distinction Matters
Says Jonah Goldberg, “One cheer (and maybe two) for non-human personhood.”
Human Zoos to Premiere in South Africa and Seattle
Anyone interested in the grim history of Social Darwinism in America, or debates over scientific racism and the sanctity of human life, will want to see this documentary.