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Sin Boldly
By Keith Pavlischek
Posted: Thursday, August 28, 2008
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A Stem Cell Win-Win
By Yuval Levin
Posted: Tuesday, November 20, 2007
The news embargo now seems to have been on what is likely to rank as the most important development in stem cell science since the first derivation of human embryonic stem cells in 1998. Two prominent scientific journals-- Science and Cell--are each today publishing papers that demonstrate extraordinary success with a technique called "somatic cell reprogramming."
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Nasty and Small
Multiculturalism and Britain's "Big Brother" Controversy
Posted: Wednesday, January 24, 2007
For several turbulent days last week, the BBC helped to fix Great Britain's distressed gaze on an "international incident" between the governments of India and the U.K. The British prime minister condemned an alleged home-grown atrocity against an Indian national in the most somber tones. The Indian minister for external affairs called it “unacceptable in any civilized society.” Angry mobs gathered in cities across India to burn figures in effigy. The incident, of course, was the racist row orchestrated by two residents on the reality show Celebrity Big Brother. That such a petty, fribbling exchange could animate public discourse for days on end says something about the success of militant multiculturalism.
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Iran Happens
Posted: Wednesday, September 27, 2006
One the one hand, we are faced with a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, nuclear blackmail and terrorist chaos at the heart of the world's Persian Gulf oil supply, and terrorist-planted nuclear weapons in America's cities. On the other hand, we can choose an economically disruptive war with Iran that will alienate us from the world, push us to and beyond our military limits, and that even then may not even succeed.
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Faith Angle Conference -- May 2008
EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions in May at the semi-annual Faith Angle Conference sponsored by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and held in Key West, Florida. Transcripts of the informative talks are now available online.
 American Evangelicalism: New Leaders, New Faces, New Issues -- D. Michael Lindsay, author of Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite, describes eight fallacies or misconceptions he held as he began his book.
Religious Voters in the 2008 Election: What It Means for Democrats, Republicans -- William A. Galston, a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and an assistant for domestic policy in the Clinton administration, discusses the importance of the Catholic vote in 2008. How Our Brains are Wired for Belief -- What does brain science add to age-old debates about the existence of God and the value of religion? Can political parties and religious groups use scientific insights to influence the beliefs of others? Dr. Andrew Newberg and Mr. David Brooks raise these questions and share their insights with journalists.
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