Jacob Sullum, writing in Reason, examines the cloning controversy through a libertarian-tinted lens: [President Bush’s Council on Bioethics chairman, University of Chicago bioethicist Leon]Kass’ most compelling argument against reproductive cloning is that it would frequently produce babies with serious birth defects. Most scientists agree that, given the current state of technology, trying to produce a cloned baby now would be reckless. But this objection will lose its force once the

“…New York City developer Forest City Ratner abandoned the design of a September 11 memorial it commissioned after the project brought outcries from firefighters and the public,” Beth Henary reports for The Weekly Standard. “Forest City Ratner, which manages fire department headquarters where a memorial will eventually stand, expressed a desire for the memorial to be a respected object in the community, a reality that clearly wasn’t coming to pass

For those of you who’ve never read Leon Wieseltier’s (in)famous New Republic piece on Cornel West, “All and Nothing at All: The Unreal World of Cornel West” (originally published March 6, 1995), TNR has reposted it in full on its website. Famous line: West’s work is noisy, tedious, slippery… sectarian, humorless, pedantic and self-endeared. The more things change, the more they stay the same; West is more powerful today than

Gleaning from cyberspace some of the more interesting of today’s Enron “drifts” (and clearing my taskbar in the process), I give you… “Enron Bet on Global Warming!!”, SupplySideInvestor.com “Enron So Far,” Michael Lynch in Reason Andrew Sullivan (keep on scrollin’ down) and Virginia Postrel on The New York Times’ Paul Krugman and his prominent place in the Enron house-o’-cards… Hillary and the Enron moolah… “What Scandal?” The National Review’s Rich