Category: Culture & Ethics
Dune Finds Entertainment in Eugenics
The world-building is fantastic, but the historical background to the novels is also instructive.
A Christmas Nightmare for the COVID Era
The new Christmas horror-comedy Silent Night offers a shrewd indictment of both mindless secularism and authoritarian science.
Bioethicists Okay Human Extinction to Eliminate Suffering
A few months ago, Oxford professor Roger Crisp opined that we might not want to stop a huge asteroid from hitting the Earth.
Leonard Sax on Intelligent Design and the “Ambiguity of the Evidence”
Stephen Meyer offers but does not seek to compel the choice to affirm a transcendent origin of the universe.
Evolutionary Psychology: Checkered Past, Checkered Present
If we want to effectively explain human behavior in all its messy richness, we would do well to look beyond this box of just-so stories.