An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.

The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.

In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.