The Uncredible Hallq (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
I’ve been sitting on a kerfluffle that I found out a couple of months ago via Ross Douthat, involving an attack by Steven Pinker on the work of the President’s Council on Bioethics. Pinker makes some good points, though after reading the contribution of his main target, former council chair Leon Kass, I get the [...]
The American Conservative (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
... view, where, even if we feel no shame, others are compelled to witness our shameful behavior. –Leon Kass, former chair of the President’s Council on Bioethics The Hungry Soul
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Bush established the council in November 2001 to advise him after his decision to deny federal funds for research using newly created human embryonic stem cells met with fierce opposition. The council's first chair, Leon Kass, MD, PhD, primarily focused the group's attention on the ethical implications of scientific advancements such as cloning and assisted reproductive technology.
Overcoming Bias (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
... does scare me. I shouldn't wonder if it scares me more than it scares arch-luddites like Leon Kass. Kass doesn't take it seriously; he doesn't expect to live that long. Yet I know - and I doubt the thought ever occurred to Kass - that even if something scares you, you can still have the courage to confront it. Even time. Even life . But sometimes it's such a strange...
Fight Aging! (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
... accept it. That is a common practice too, to say it is inevitable, natural, even the best thing. Leon Kass, for example, has said it is life’s finitude that gives it its meaning - as though young people who do not think about their mortality don’t enjoy life. The final approach is to battle it. This was the strategy of Ponce de Leon, who was wandering around in the jungles...
PrawfsBlawg (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
... Although I can understand why we might want to be prudent about the "unnatural," I am afraid Leon Kass is speaking in a foreign language as far as I am concerned.) So on Monday I go in for "revision" surgery on one of those hips. In keeping with my policy of using up every available holiday for surgery, the other hip will follow around Christmas or next summer. (When my sabbatical...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Dan Senor, across from the Citigroup Center, NY, NY. That's celebrity here on The Corner. Look! Is that...? Can it be...? Robby George? From Princeton!!! Is that Leon Kass in the flesh? Ohmygosh, Mark Levin takes cabs? Because that's where I first heard him!! Do you think Andy McCarthy would mind if I stopped him for an autograph? Do you know he works for National Review now???
