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...

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...

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

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...

The arbitrary dawn of a new year inevitably jumpstarts our pursuit of manufactured promise, those dreams, resolutions, and vices that, with...

Bioethics is big business, not just with academics looking for a niche market to practice their trade, but also for government-sponsored th...

The New York Times reports that President Bush plans to allocate $1.5 billion dollars in a campaign drive to promote healthy marriage. In t...