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Challenges of aging society are economic and ethical

WASHINGTON -- American society is aging -- dramatically, rapidly and, largely, well. More and more of us are living healthily into our 70s and 80s,...
Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 10/02/05 by Leon R. Kass Washington Post · More from publication
A reply

THESE were deeply searching, very thoughtful, very well-considered comments. I regard these remarks from the four of you as an enormous gift to our...
Public Interest, 01/01/03 by Leon R. Kass · More from publication
The public's stake

FOR the first six months of this year, the President's Council on Bioethics met to consider the moral, biomedical, and human significance of human...
Public Interest, 01/01/03 by Leon R. Kass · More from publication
Preventing a brave new world

The urgency of the great political struggles of the twentieth century, successfully waged against totalitarianisms first right and then left, seems...
Human Life Review, 07/01/01 by Kass, Leon R · More from publication
L'Chaim and Its Limits: Why Not Immortality?(view on immortality and life)

You don't have to be Jewish to drink L'Chaim, to lift a glass "To Life." Everyone in his right mind believes that life is good and that death is...
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, 05/01/01 by Kass, Leon R. · More from publication
Aldous Huxley Brave New World (1932).

The urgency of the great political struggles of the twentieth century, successfully waged against totalitarianisms first right and then left,...
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, 03/01/00 by Kass, Leon R. · More from publication

moral meaning of genetic technology, The

r When, less than a half-century ago, James D. Watson and Francis Crick first revealed to the world the structure of DNA, no one imagined how...
Human Life Review, 01/01/00 by Kass, Leon R · More from publication
Proposing Courtship.(gender roles)

The article examines Erasmus' Colloquy, written in 1523, to help form a modern guide for gender roles. The Colloquy outlined social roles for men...
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, 10/01/99 by Kass, Amy A.; Kass, Leon R. · More from publication
The end of courtship - disappearance of courtship customs in America

The growing number of failed marriages is attributed to the absence of courtship customs. Today's youth have no socially prescribed forms of...
Public Interest, 01/01/97 by Leon R. Kass · More from publication
Can nature serve as a moral guide?

However declasse, I have never quite given up the hope that nature might put in a reappearance in ethics. Unfortunately, it is hard to think of a...
Hastings Center Report, The, 11/01/96 by Leon R. Kass · More from publication