Infanticide - The Argument In Favor

Infanticide - The Argument In Favor

If you are not a social authoritarian in love with big government and worry about the personal ramifications for freedom if health care is federalized, here is a chilling idea from the home of…
Bioethics

Bioethics

The intersection of medical technology, medical practice and ethical principles has long been an important field of study but the rapid advance of medical technology has made it perhaps the most…
Should You Resign Over A Paper You Disagree With?

Should You Resign Over A Paper You Disagree With?

Klaudia Brix of Jacobs University has resigned from the board of the Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology,  the official publication of the Italian Society of Anatomy and Histology, because…
Gladstone and Macaulay

Gladstone and Macaulay

William Macaulay, in a review (1839) about the recently-published book by William Gladstone, The State in its Relations with the Church, wrote:     Mr Gladstone conceives that the…
Science As Rationalization And Ultimate Religion

Science As Rationalization And Ultimate Religion

The main observation here is that rationalization on the social level is rationalization on the personal level performed by macro-systems (social systems from our point of view). Scientism is the…
Individualism And The Concept Of Rights

Individualism And The Concept Of Rights

Well over a year ago, someone asked for a response to the following quote from Ayn Rand.  I suspect this was largely due to the idea that such a view of individualism would be difficult to…
What About Infinity?

What About Infinity?

Infinity is a useful concept but it is often used inappropriately by being assigned as a trait to some object or another.  Briefly, nothing can be infinite, since in order for something to "be…