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  AUDIO: Illusions about Human Rights
Illusions About Human Rights
The Decline and Fall of the U.N.'s Human Rights Agenda
Start:  Wednesday, April 5, 2006  5:45 PM
End:  Wednesday, April 5, 2006  7:00 PM
Location:   Ethics and Public Policy Center
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(Intersection of 15th and K Streets)
Washington, D.C. 20005

The Human Rights Commission of the United Nations has become so discredited that even Secretary-General Kofi Annan admits it has "cast a shadow on the reputation of the United Nations system as a whole." But the creation of a Human Rights Council to replace the Commission, approved earlier this month by the General Assembly, will not lift the shadow of a politicized body that shields the world's worst human rights offenders from criticism. An ethos of multiculturalism, fed by a utopian vision of human societies, has infected the human rights agenda of the United Nations and many of the advocacy groups invested in its work.

EPPC Senior Fellow Joseph Loconte, who served on the bi-partisan Congressional Task Force on UN Reform, was joined by Nile Gardiner, fellow at the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at the Heritage Foundation, as they explored the reasons for the UN failure and mapped a way forward.



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The New Atlantis (Spring 2008)
The New Atlantis
A Journal of Technology and Society

The latest issue of The New Atlantis includes a major new poll on embryo research, plus articles and essays on biofuels, health care and the presidential election, biotech enhancement, multitasking, the mind of Einstein, and much more. Visit http://www.thenewatlantis.com/ today! 

Technology and Society
The Age of Neuroelectronics

For decades, experiments at the border between brains and electronics have led to sensationalistic media coverage, vivid science fiction portrayals, and dreams of cyborgs and bionic men. But recently, this area of science has seen remarkable advances -- from robotic limbs controlled directly by brain activity, to brain implants that alter the mood of the depressed, to rats steered by remote control. In this New Atlantis article, EPPC Fellow Adam Keiper explores the peculiar history and present directions of this research, and considers the challenges of staying human in the age of neuroelectronics. 

M. Edward Whelan III
Blogging on the Courts

EPPC President Edward Whelan, the director of the program on The Constitution, the Courts, and the Culture, is a leading contributor to Bench Memos, National Review Online's award-winning blog on judicial nominations and constitutional law. You can read a list of all of his postings here.

Here is some of the praise Mr. Whelan has received for his blogging:

From Steve Schmidt, who, as special adviser to President Bush, led the White House's efforts to confirm the Supreme Court nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito: "Ed Whelan was the most influential and valuable commentator on the nominations of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito. His remarkably rapid, thorough, and reliable responses to the distorted attacks on the nominees prevented those attacks from gaining traction. The White House was deeply grateful that he was on our side."

From Paul Mirengoff of the influential Power Line blog:  "Blogs like NRO’s Bench Memos … enable legal super-stars like Ed Whelan to shoot down bad arguments against nominees within hours." 


"Cube and Cathedral" Now in Paperback

Senior Fellow George Weigel's 2005 book The Cube and the Cathedral -- a Foreign Affairs bestseller -- is now available in the United States in paperback, and has been published in several foreign-language editions: Polish, Italian, and French. For more information, or to purchase copies, click here