John P. Holdren thinks babies will be the death of us all. Normally, one man’s opinion would not matter terribly, but Mr. Holdren happens to be President Obama’s Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Assistant to the President for
30 July 2009 — Vol. 12 / No. 22 A few weeks ago, President Obama demanded that a national health care bill be on his desk before Congress’s summer recess. Since then, frenetic attempts to ram the 1,000-page bill through Congress have all but collapsed,
13 July 2009 — Vol. 12/No. 20 In what will perhaps come to be known as the pontiff’s signature writing, Pope Benedict XVI released a sweeping encyclical that seeks to make the Catholic Church’s social stance abundantly clear on everything from sound economic practice to
…Mosher has put his finger on another instance of the general case that government intervention in the spontaneous order of the world is counterproductive. When government intervenes, resources are squandered to “solve” a small or imaginary problem and in doing so it creates a large
What’s the opposite of a fan? Well, I have one of those. For the purposes of charity, we’ll give him a new name: Blake. A year and a half ago, Blake sent me a polite email requesting that we remove a picture that we currently
Politically motivated panels rarely produce good science, and the report of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development, and Reproductive Health of the U.K. Parliament is no exception. The report, Return of the Population Growth Factor: Its Impact upon the Millennium Development Goals, is
In a May 7th interview on NPR’s The Diane Rehm Show, Ted Turner, the legendary founder of CNN, gave a thumbs-up to China’s one-child policy. “The Chinese,” said Turner, “I think wisely, instituted the one-child family policy, and they put in penalties, tax penalties and
Some years ago I wrote a book called, A Mother's Ordeal, detailing the dramatic fight of a young Chinese mother to save her unborn child. On my recent trip to China, I encountered a mother of four whose ongoing story is every bit as gripping.
22 June 2009 — Vol. 12 / No. 18 Politically motivated panels rarely produce good science, and the report of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development, and Reproductive Health of the U.K. Parliament is no exception. The report, Return of the Population Growth
18 May 2009 — Vol.12/No.16 In a May 7th interview on NPR’s “The Diane Rehm Show,” Ted Turner, the legendary founder of CNN, gave a thumbs-up to China’s one-child policy. “The Chinese,” said Turner, “I think wisely, instituted the one-child family policy, and they put
John P. Holdren thinks babies will be the death of us all. Normally, one man’s opinion would not matter terribly, but Mr. Holdren happens
30 July 2009 — Vol. 12 / No. 22 A few weeks ago, President Obama demanded that a national health care bill be on his
13 July 2009 — Vol. 12/No. 20 In what will perhaps come to be known as the pontiff’s signature writing, Pope Benedict XVI released a
…Mosher has put his finger on another instance of the general case that government intervention in the spontaneous order of the world is counterproductive. When
What’s the opposite of a fan? Well, I have one of those. For the purposes of charity, we’ll give him a new name: Blake. A
Politically motivated panels rarely produce good science, and the report of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development, and Reproductive Health of the U.K.
In a May 7th interview on NPR’s The Diane Rehm Show, Ted Turner, the legendary founder of CNN, gave a thumbs-up to China’s one-child policy.
Some years ago I wrote a book called, A Mother's Ordeal, detailing the dramatic fight of a young Chinese mother to save her unborn child.
22 June 2009 — Vol. 12 / No. 18 Politically motivated panels rarely produce good science, and the report of the All Party Parliamentary Group
18 May 2009 — Vol.12/No.16 In a May 7th interview on NPR’s “The Diane Rehm Show,” Ted Turner, the legendary founder of CNN, gave a