How the U.S. Can Best Respond to Iran’s Latest Attacks in Iraq
Washington must choose a fight that it can win.
March 16, 2020
Bioethics in Times of War and Plague
Laugh, marry, light Sabbath candles—and look to C.S. Lewis for guidance.
In 2003, when the War on Terror was at its height, Eric Cohen authored a long reflection on the need to consider the moral and philosophical conundrums produced by advances in biotechnology. In so doing, he posed the question of “Why should we be concerned about bioethics in a time of war?” After all, with thousands of American men and women heading off to battle, was this not perhaps a time to defer discussion of such abstruse issues? Cohen turned to C.S. Lewis’s address to his students at Oxford, titled “Learning in War-Time,” for guidance.
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Taiwan and Israel Won’t Be Recognizing Each Other Anytime Soon. But They Should Still Work Together
Small democracies facing big threats.
Bioethics in Times of War and Plague
Laugh, marry, light Sabbath candles—and look to C.S. Lewis for guidance.
The Hebraic Roots of Modern Equality
Along with the independent judiciary and limited government.
“Social Distancing” and the Biblical Obligation to Respect One’s Elders
The Ten Commandments were given to adults.