The latest issue of The New Atlantis (www.TheNewAtlantis.com) includes major new essays on science and Congress, TiVo and iPod, and human growth hormone. It also includes a special forty-page section on "The Embryo Question," exploring the large human questions that lie behind the current embryo research debate.

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Editorials:

• Science in the Public Square
• The Bioethics Agenda and the Bush Second Term

Essays:

• Science and Congress
  Adam Keiper on science advice and the legacy of the Office of Technology Assessment
  
• The Age of Egocasting
  Christine Rosen on TiVo, iPod, and technologies of fetish
  
• Human Growth Hormone and the Measure of Man
  Dov Fox on height enhancement and the new tyranny of the normal

Special Section: "The Embryo Question"

• I. Acorns and Embryos
  Robert P. George and Patrick Lee on moral standing and bad metaphors
  
• II. The Tragedy of Equality
  Eric Cohen on the uses of reason, the absurdity of disease, and the quest for justice
  
• III. Equality Reconsidered
  Leon R. Kass on human frailty and human dignity
  Yuval Levin on the crisis of everyday life
  Amy Laura Hall on the three meanings of human equality

State of the Art:

• I’ve Got You Under My Skin
• Black Box Ballyhoo
• Gray Matter in the Courtroom
• Debunking the Digital Classroom
• The Cloning Logjam, and more...

Looking Back, Looking Ahead:

• Science and Tech Policy: What Next?
• Politicizing Science, Sixties-Style