Everyone Is Talking
By Christine Rosen
Posted: Monday, April 21, 2008
A new technology has disrupted the unspoken social rules that had previously governed public space, and people are left searching for ways to reinstate them -- some more effective than others. But the technology itself, of course, is more than the enemy of decorum.  [Read More]

For the Love of the Game
Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, the Mitchell Report, and the adulteration of American sports.
By Eric Cohen, Leon R. Kass
Posted: Tuesday, March 11, 2008
While the Mitchell Report about steroids in major-league baseball gives voice to a widespread concern about the disturbing effects of performance-enhancing drugs on modern athletics, it also demonstrates our inability (or unwillingness) to confront the deeper sources of the trouble. We seem to know that biotechnological enhancement is a threat to the "integrity of the game," but we cannot really articulate why. The reason is that we have lost an understanding of what makes sports truly admirable, and hence worthy of our attention and our devotion.  [Read More]

The Clipboard of the Future
Why Health Care Records Are So Low-Tech
By James C. Capretta
Posted: Monday, March 3, 2008
Most Americans have instantaneous access to their banking records over the Internet, but they never see their medical records. They do not have ready access to their children's immunization history, they forget the last time they had their cholesterol checked, and they generally have no idea what all the tests they have had over the years mean for their future. In EPPC's journal The New Atlantis, Fellow James C. Capretta explains how information technology could improve American health care.  [Read More]

Is That Your Final Question?
By Christine Rosen
Posted: Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama debated for possibly the last time in Ohio on Tuesday evening. It was the 20th debate. Is there anything left to ask? The New York Times Opinion section asked five experts, including EPPC Fellow Christine Rosen to pose the questions that they feel have not been answered.  [Read More]

Daddy's DNA
By Christine Rosen
Posted: Monday, February 25, 2008
For every burgeoning cultural crisis there is a product that offers to solve it: Enter Identigen, a company that is now selling an over-the-counter paternity test -- available in Rite-Aid and Meijer drugstores nationwide (as well as over the Internet). The box features a tasteful sketch of mother and child and promises test results "admissible in most courts of law." As Identigene's Web site promises, "Putting your mind at ease, or making sure that a potential parent acts responsibly, has never been more convenient, confidential, affordable, or accurate."  [Read More]