PublicReasons blog

In my last post, I began a broad discussion of the biotech industry and some of the concerns that have been raised regarding its ‘commitmen...

Rwanda redux? Samantha Power draws much needed attention to the current program of government sponsored ethnic cleansing now ongoing in Sud...

This article from World Magazine about Wesley Clark’s stance on abortion (pro-choice) predictably gets nearly everything about existentiali...

Height is a issue that many leave unsolved mainly because of lack of knowledge about the subject. It is come to my attention  however that h...

Who’s Right? The Supreme Court decision in Lawrence and Garner v. Texas earlier this year seemed to offer hope to Americans and liberals ar...

The publication of Terry Eagleton’s After Theory appears to have sparked a debate that has been brewing in the wings of Academe for a long ...

This is the first of what I hope to be a series of reflections on the meaning of Marxism for contemporary work in deontological liberal pol...

It has been a matter of some concern for several years that the promise so loudly trumpeted by advocates of the biotech industry, namely, t...

Graham Allison, author of the seminal Essence of Decision, has an article on nuclear proliferation in the current issue of Foreign Affairs ...

The Practice of Justice in America In Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing a man over sour cream will get you a recommended jail sentence of 30 ...