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EPPC Briefly: Technology and the Constitution
Posted: Thursday, June 24, 2004
EPPC BRIEFLY
Publication Date: June 24, 2004
The June 24, 2004 edition of "EPPC Briefly," the biweekly electronic newsletter about our latest publications and events. In this edition: articles on the Constiution, the English language, Medicare, and more. Also, a letter from our president. To subscribe, enter your e-mail address in the box to the right. FEATURE ARTICLE Technology and the Constitution
How does technological progress affect the way judges interpret the law? This question is especially significant for those who believe the Constitution should be construed according to its original meaning. In the latest issue of EPPC's journal The New Atlantis, O. Carter Snead examines three different crises that technology creates for judicial interpretation -- crises of application, crises of premises, and crises of meaning.
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/5/snead.htm
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NEW PUBLICATIONS The Politics and Realities of Medicare
"In reality, the Medicare crisis is permanent. So long as we continue to see aging and death as crises, we will feel the need to spend increasing amounts on the aging ill. Medicare confronts us with the impossibility of winning the war against time, and the limited capacity of rapidly improving medical technologies to fulfill our rapidly rising expectations." Click here to read the rest of this Public Interest essay from Eric Cohen, New Atlantis editor and director of EPPC's program on Biotechnology and American Democracy.
http://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.2129/pub_detail.asp
EPPC OUT AND ABOUT Telling the World Its True Story
"Too much of our contemporary high culture has forgotten its debt to theology. This forgetfulness, and theology's occasional acquiescence in it, seem to me profound misreadings of the role that the life of the mind plays in the Church and in our culture." Read more from Senior Fellow George Weigel's commencement address at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Overbrook, Pennsylvania.
http://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.2121/pub_detail.asp Christianity and Democracy
Last week, EPPC hosted a panel discussion on the historical and contemporary relationship between Christianity and democracy. The discussion -- which featured EPPC's George Weigel and Timothy Shah, as well as Peter Berger, Daniel Philpott, Elizabeth Prodromou, and Robert Woodberry -- is being transcribed and will appear online soon. For more details, click here:
http://www.eppc.org/conferences/eventID.84/conf_detail.asp Sports World Rocked by Steroid Scandals
Steroid use in professional sports has the perverse consequence of making our athletes "less excellent and more dependent," according to New Atlantis editor Eric Cohen in this interview with Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. "And so the people who want to be the best end up being less great than they really might be ... more like animals than athletes." Click here for more:
http://www.eppc.org/news/newsID.2124/news_detail.asp
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The New Atlantis
A Journal of Technology and Society
The latest issue of EPPC's journal The New Atlantis includes an editorial on President Obama's approach to science policy, plus articles and essays on the changing face of modern warfare, artificial intelligence, cancer treatment under socialism, the lived experience of mental illness, and much more. Visit TheNewAtlantis.com today!
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