Yuval Levin

This has been a summer of surgeon-general headaches for the Bush administration. In July, former surgeon general Richard Carmona, who…

Since it began almost a decade ago, the debate over embryonic-stem-cell research has been driven by two simple premises: embryonic…

The politics of stem cells are stuck in a repeating loop. This week, the House of Representatives will again take…

The Case Against Perfection by Michael SandelHarvard University Press, 128 pages, $18.95 Debates about biotechnology tend to be about means….

**A National Review Online Symposium** In an effort to put up with such a very long campaign season, many of…

President Bush took the extraordinary step of preemptively issuing a veto threat against an entire category of potential legislative tactics…

In terms of the format and the moderators, this was easily the worst political debate I’ve ever seen. Too many…

In January, the House of Representatives passed a bill to overturn President Bush’s embryonic-stem-cell funding policy. Sponsored by Democrat Diana…

With each new round of argument, the ethical questions at the heart of the embryonic stem cell debate get buried…

“It is scandalous that eight years have passed since we have known about stem cell research and the potential to…

This week offers a perfect snapshot of the sorry state of the embryonic-stem-cell-research debate. On Monday, the newspapers were full…

The Children of Men—both the novel by P. D. James and its recent movie incarnation—imagines a future in which human…