Books
What’s Wrong with Babel?
– The American Scholar 58 (1): 41-60, Winter 1989.Abstract: Traces the history of God’s working with the people of Israel. Book of Genesis, which teaches God as creator and authority, and man as seeking independence and… More
A Woman for All Seasons
– Commentary, September 1991.Abstract: One often hears it said, and not only by outsiders, that Judaism is a male-dominated religion that does not properly appreciate its women. The blame for this attitude, say many… More
Regarding Daughters and Sisters: The Rape of Dinah
– Commentary, April 1992.Abstract: Ever since I was a boy, long before I had a wife and daughters, I have always thought and keenly felt that rape is a capital offense, a crime worse even than murder. For the… More
Seeing the Nakedness of His Father
– Commentary, June 1992.Abstract: Standing in the large men’s locker room of the National Capitol YMCA, getting dressed after my swim and shower, I overheard a conversation taking place out of my sight, on the… More
The Path Not Taken: Assimilation versus Separation, by Aaron Wildavsky
– Commentary, September 1993.Abstract: To assimilate or to stay apart? That is the question which for centuries has confronted Jews living in the Diaspora. How much may the children of Israel become like their host… More
Why the Dietary Laws?
– Commentary, June 1994.Abstract: A core document of Western civilization, the Torah or Pentateuch has at its center a set of dietary regulations, presented in the eleventh chapter of Leviticus. Though these now… More
Educating Father Abraham: The Meaning of Wife
– First Things, November 1994.Excerpt: It is not exactly traditional to speak about the education of Abraham. Pious tales of the patriarch regard him as a precocious monotheist even before God calls him, a man who… More
Educating Father Abraham: The Meaning of Fatherhood
– First Things, December 1994.Excerpt: My theme is the education of the patriarch Abraham, Father of Judaism, father of Christianity, father of Islam. God Himself undertakes Abraham’s education in order to address and… More
The Need for Piety and Law: A Kristol-Clear Case
– In Christopher De Muth and William Kristol, eds., The Neoconservative Imagination: Essays in Honor of Irving Kristol (Washington, DC: AEI Press, 1995), 112-33.Charity and the Confines of Compassion
– Philanthropy X (2): 5-7 & 28-31, Spring 1996. Reprinted in Amy A. Kass, ed. The Perfect Gift: The Philanthropic Imagination in Poetry and Prose (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002).The Akedah as Final Examination: Abraham, Summa cum Laude
– Sources: The Chicago Journal of Jewish Studies Number II, Spring 1996, 24-31.Farmers, Founders, and Fratricide: The Story of Cain and Abel
– First Things, April 1996.Excerpt: Once one gets right down to it, the difference between liberals and conservatives traces home to a disagreement about the basic source of human troubles. Liberals are inclined to… More
A Genealogy of Justice
– Commentary, July 1996.Abstract: All morally serious people care generally about justice. And when its apparent absence touches them directly, all people, serious or not, find themselves eager for justice. Even… More
Love of Woman and Love of God: The Case of Jacob
– Commentary, March 1999.Abstract: The biblical patriarch’s romance with Rachel tells us much about the power of eros–but even more about divine purpose.
The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature
– University Of Chicago Press, May, 1999.The Hungry Soul is a fascinating exploration of the natural and cultural act of eating. Kass brilliantly reveals how the various aspects of this phenomenon, and the customs, rituals, and… More
Leon Kass and the Genesis of Wisdom by Alan Jacobs
– Alan Jacobs, First Things, June/July 2003.Excerpt: Leon Kass’ meditation on the wisdom of Genesis is expansive, curious, fascinatingly rich and digressive. This I claim without reservation, but my next claim begins with a… More
Interview on “NOW with Bill Moyers”
– “NOW with Bill Moyers,” PBS, July 25, 2003.Excerpt: ANNOUNCER: Tonight on NOW WITH BILL MOYERS: Congress defies the FCC decision to give big media more power. BURR: I think we ought to err on the side of looking out for the… More
Natural Law Judaism? The Genesis of Bioethics in Hans Jonas, Leo Strauss, and Leon Kass
– Lawrence Vogel, Hastings Center Report 36 (3):32-43 (May-June 2006).Summary: A full reading of Leon Kass’s writings, setting them in their scholarly lineage, reveals a natural law position colored by religious revelation. Leon Kass is much misunderstood.… More
Natural-Law Judaism?: The Genesis of Bioethics in Hans Jonas, Leo Strauss and Leon Kass
– Lawrence A. Vogel, Hastings Center Report 36:3 (2006).Excerpt: The University of Chicago’s Leon Kass is the most important bioethicist writing out of the work of Hans Jonas today and, as Chairman of President Bush’s Council on… More
Permanent Tensions, Transcendent Prospects
– In Christopher DeMuth and Yuval Levin, eds., Religion and the American Future (Washington, DC: AEI Press, 2008), 83-117.The God-Seeking Animal by Eric Cohen
– Eric Cohen, First Things, April, 2010.Excerpt: On the cover of Being Human, the anthology of writings collected by the President’s Council on Bioethics under Leon Kass’s stewardship, there is a picture of a ballerina… More
Essays
What’s Wrong with Babel?
– The American Scholar 58 (1): 41-60, Winter 1989.Abstract: Traces the history of God’s working with the people of Israel. Book of Genesis, which teaches God as creator and authority, and man as seeking independence and… More
A Woman for All Seasons
– Commentary, September 1991.Abstract: One often hears it said, and not only by outsiders, that Judaism is a male-dominated religion that does not properly appreciate its women. The blame for this attitude, say many… More
Regarding Daughters and Sisters: The Rape of Dinah
– Commentary, April 1992.Abstract: Ever since I was a boy, long before I had a wife and daughters, I have always thought and keenly felt that rape is a capital offense, a crime worse even than murder. For the… More
Seeing the Nakedness of His Father
– Commentary, June 1992.Abstract: Standing in the large men’s locker room of the National Capitol YMCA, getting dressed after my swim and shower, I overheard a conversation taking place out of my sight, on the… More
The Path Not Taken: Assimilation versus Separation, by Aaron Wildavsky
– Commentary, September 1993.Abstract: To assimilate or to stay apart? That is the question which for centuries has confronted Jews living in the Diaspora. How much may the children of Israel become like their host… More
Why the Dietary Laws?
– Commentary, June 1994.Abstract: A core document of Western civilization, the Torah or Pentateuch has at its center a set of dietary regulations, presented in the eleventh chapter of Leviticus. Though these now… More
Educating Father Abraham: The Meaning of Wife
– First Things, November 1994.Excerpt: It is not exactly traditional to speak about the education of Abraham. Pious tales of the patriarch regard him as a precocious monotheist even before God calls him, a man who… More
Educating Father Abraham: The Meaning of Fatherhood
– First Things, December 1994.Excerpt: My theme is the education of the patriarch Abraham, Father of Judaism, father of Christianity, father of Islam. God Himself undertakes Abraham’s education in order to address and… More
The Need for Piety and Law: A Kristol-Clear Case
– In Christopher De Muth and William Kristol, eds., The Neoconservative Imagination: Essays in Honor of Irving Kristol (Washington, DC: AEI Press, 1995), 112-33.Charity and the Confines of Compassion
– Philanthropy X (2): 5-7 & 28-31, Spring 1996. Reprinted in Amy A. Kass, ed. The Perfect Gift: The Philanthropic Imagination in Poetry and Prose (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002).The Akedah as Final Examination: Abraham, Summa cum Laude
– Sources: The Chicago Journal of Jewish Studies Number II, Spring 1996, 24-31.Farmers, Founders, and Fratricide: The Story of Cain and Abel
– First Things, April 1996.Excerpt: Once one gets right down to it, the difference between liberals and conservatives traces home to a disagreement about the basic source of human troubles. Liberals are inclined to… More
A Genealogy of Justice
– Commentary, July 1996.Abstract: All morally serious people care generally about justice. And when its apparent absence touches them directly, all people, serious or not, find themselves eager for justice. Even… More
Love of Woman and Love of God: The Case of Jacob
– Commentary, March 1999.Abstract: The biblical patriarch’s romance with Rachel tells us much about the power of eros–but even more about divine purpose.
The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature
– University Of Chicago Press, May, 1999.The Hungry Soul is a fascinating exploration of the natural and cultural act of eating. Kass brilliantly reveals how the various aspects of this phenomenon, and the customs, rituals, and… More
Leon Kass and the Genesis of Wisdom by Alan Jacobs
– Alan Jacobs, First Things, June/July 2003.Excerpt: Leon Kass’ meditation on the wisdom of Genesis is expansive, curious, fascinatingly rich and digressive. This I claim without reservation, but my next claim begins with a… More
Interview on “NOW with Bill Moyers”
– “NOW with Bill Moyers,” PBS, July 25, 2003.Excerpt: ANNOUNCER: Tonight on NOW WITH BILL MOYERS: Congress defies the FCC decision to give big media more power. BURR: I think we ought to err on the side of looking out for the… More
Natural Law Judaism? The Genesis of Bioethics in Hans Jonas, Leo Strauss, and Leon Kass
– Lawrence Vogel, Hastings Center Report 36 (3):32-43 (May-June 2006).Summary: A full reading of Leon Kass’s writings, setting them in their scholarly lineage, reveals a natural law position colored by religious revelation. Leon Kass is much misunderstood.… More
Natural-Law Judaism?: The Genesis of Bioethics in Hans Jonas, Leo Strauss and Leon Kass
– Lawrence A. Vogel, Hastings Center Report 36:3 (2006).Excerpt: The University of Chicago’s Leon Kass is the most important bioethicist writing out of the work of Hans Jonas today and, as Chairman of President Bush’s Council on… More
Permanent Tensions, Transcendent Prospects
– In Christopher DeMuth and Yuval Levin, eds., Religion and the American Future (Washington, DC: AEI Press, 2008), 83-117.The God-Seeking Animal by Eric Cohen
– Eric Cohen, First Things, April, 2010.Excerpt: On the cover of Being Human, the anthology of writings collected by the President’s Council on Bioethics under Leon Kass’s stewardship, there is a picture of a ballerina… More
Commentary
What’s Wrong with Babel?
– The American Scholar 58 (1): 41-60, Winter 1989.Abstract: Traces the history of God’s working with the people of Israel. Book of Genesis, which teaches God as creator and authority, and man as seeking independence and… More
A Woman for All Seasons
– Commentary, September 1991.Abstract: One often hears it said, and not only by outsiders, that Judaism is a male-dominated religion that does not properly appreciate its women. The blame for this attitude, say many… More
Regarding Daughters and Sisters: The Rape of Dinah
– Commentary, April 1992.Abstract: Ever since I was a boy, long before I had a wife and daughters, I have always thought and keenly felt that rape is a capital offense, a crime worse even than murder. For the… More
Seeing the Nakedness of His Father
– Commentary, June 1992.Abstract: Standing in the large men’s locker room of the National Capitol YMCA, getting dressed after my swim and shower, I overheard a conversation taking place out of my sight, on the… More
The Path Not Taken: Assimilation versus Separation, by Aaron Wildavsky
– Commentary, September 1993.Abstract: To assimilate or to stay apart? That is the question which for centuries has confronted Jews living in the Diaspora. How much may the children of Israel become like their host… More
Why the Dietary Laws?
– Commentary, June 1994.Abstract: A core document of Western civilization, the Torah or Pentateuch has at its center a set of dietary regulations, presented in the eleventh chapter of Leviticus. Though these now… More
Educating Father Abraham: The Meaning of Wife
– First Things, November 1994.Excerpt: It is not exactly traditional to speak about the education of Abraham. Pious tales of the patriarch regard him as a precocious monotheist even before God calls him, a man who… More
Educating Father Abraham: The Meaning of Fatherhood
– First Things, December 1994.Excerpt: My theme is the education of the patriarch Abraham, Father of Judaism, father of Christianity, father of Islam. God Himself undertakes Abraham’s education in order to address and… More
The Need for Piety and Law: A Kristol-Clear Case
– In Christopher De Muth and William Kristol, eds., The Neoconservative Imagination: Essays in Honor of Irving Kristol (Washington, DC: AEI Press, 1995), 112-33.Charity and the Confines of Compassion
– Philanthropy X (2): 5-7 & 28-31, Spring 1996. Reprinted in Amy A. Kass, ed. The Perfect Gift: The Philanthropic Imagination in Poetry and Prose (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002).The Akedah as Final Examination: Abraham, Summa cum Laude
– Sources: The Chicago Journal of Jewish Studies Number II, Spring 1996, 24-31.Farmers, Founders, and Fratricide: The Story of Cain and Abel
– First Things, April 1996.Excerpt: Once one gets right down to it, the difference between liberals and conservatives traces home to a disagreement about the basic source of human troubles. Liberals are inclined to… More
A Genealogy of Justice
– Commentary, July 1996.Abstract: All morally serious people care generally about justice. And when its apparent absence touches them directly, all people, serious or not, find themselves eager for justice. Even… More
Love of Woman and Love of God: The Case of Jacob
– Commentary, March 1999.Abstract: The biblical patriarch’s romance with Rachel tells us much about the power of eros–but even more about divine purpose.
The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature
– University Of Chicago Press, May, 1999.The Hungry Soul is a fascinating exploration of the natural and cultural act of eating. Kass brilliantly reveals how the various aspects of this phenomenon, and the customs, rituals, and… More
Leon Kass and the Genesis of Wisdom by Alan Jacobs
– Alan Jacobs, First Things, June/July 2003.Excerpt: Leon Kass’ meditation on the wisdom of Genesis is expansive, curious, fascinatingly rich and digressive. This I claim without reservation, but my next claim begins with a… More
Interview on “NOW with Bill Moyers”
– “NOW with Bill Moyers,” PBS, July 25, 2003.Excerpt: ANNOUNCER: Tonight on NOW WITH BILL MOYERS: Congress defies the FCC decision to give big media more power. BURR: I think we ought to err on the side of looking out for the… More
Natural Law Judaism? The Genesis of Bioethics in Hans Jonas, Leo Strauss, and Leon Kass
– Lawrence Vogel, Hastings Center Report 36 (3):32-43 (May-June 2006).Summary: A full reading of Leon Kass’s writings, setting them in their scholarly lineage, reveals a natural law position colored by religious revelation. Leon Kass is much misunderstood.… More
Natural-Law Judaism?: The Genesis of Bioethics in Hans Jonas, Leo Strauss and Leon Kass
– Lawrence A. Vogel, Hastings Center Report 36:3 (2006).Excerpt: The University of Chicago’s Leon Kass is the most important bioethicist writing out of the work of Hans Jonas today and, as Chairman of President Bush’s Council on… More
Permanent Tensions, Transcendent Prospects
– In Christopher DeMuth and Yuval Levin, eds., Religion and the American Future (Washington, DC: AEI Press, 2008), 83-117.The God-Seeking Animal by Eric Cohen
– Eric Cohen, First Things, April, 2010.Excerpt: On the cover of Being Human, the anthology of writings collected by the President’s Council on Bioethics under Leon Kass’s stewardship, there is a picture of a ballerina… More
Multimedia
What’s Wrong with Babel?
– The American Scholar 58 (1): 41-60, Winter 1989.Abstract: Traces the history of God’s working with the people of Israel. Book of Genesis, which teaches God as creator and authority, and man as seeking independence and… More
A Woman for All Seasons
– Commentary, September 1991.Abstract: One often hears it said, and not only by outsiders, that Judaism is a male-dominated religion that does not properly appreciate its women. The blame for this attitude, say many… More
Regarding Daughters and Sisters: The Rape of Dinah
– Commentary, April 1992.Abstract: Ever since I was a boy, long before I had a wife and daughters, I have always thought and keenly felt that rape is a capital offense, a crime worse even than murder. For the… More
Seeing the Nakedness of His Father
– Commentary, June 1992.Abstract: Standing in the large men’s locker room of the National Capitol YMCA, getting dressed after my swim and shower, I overheard a conversation taking place out of my sight, on the… More
The Path Not Taken: Assimilation versus Separation, by Aaron Wildavsky
– Commentary, September 1993.Abstract: To assimilate or to stay apart? That is the question which for centuries has confronted Jews living in the Diaspora. How much may the children of Israel become like their host… More
Why the Dietary Laws?
– Commentary, June 1994.Abstract: A core document of Western civilization, the Torah or Pentateuch has at its center a set of dietary regulations, presented in the eleventh chapter of Leviticus. Though these now… More
Educating Father Abraham: The Meaning of Wife
– First Things, November 1994.Excerpt: It is not exactly traditional to speak about the education of Abraham. Pious tales of the patriarch regard him as a precocious monotheist even before God calls him, a man who… More
Educating Father Abraham: The Meaning of Fatherhood
– First Things, December 1994.Excerpt: My theme is the education of the patriarch Abraham, Father of Judaism, father of Christianity, father of Islam. God Himself undertakes Abraham’s education in order to address and… More
The Need for Piety and Law: A Kristol-Clear Case
– In Christopher De Muth and William Kristol, eds., The Neoconservative Imagination: Essays in Honor of Irving Kristol (Washington, DC: AEI Press, 1995), 112-33.Charity and the Confines of Compassion
– Philanthropy X (2): 5-7 & 28-31, Spring 1996. Reprinted in Amy A. Kass, ed. The Perfect Gift: The Philanthropic Imagination in Poetry and Prose (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002).The Akedah as Final Examination: Abraham, Summa cum Laude
– Sources: The Chicago Journal of Jewish Studies Number II, Spring 1996, 24-31.Farmers, Founders, and Fratricide: The Story of Cain and Abel
– First Things, April 1996.Excerpt: Once one gets right down to it, the difference between liberals and conservatives traces home to a disagreement about the basic source of human troubles. Liberals are inclined to… More
A Genealogy of Justice
– Commentary, July 1996.Abstract: All morally serious people care generally about justice. And when its apparent absence touches them directly, all people, serious or not, find themselves eager for justice. Even… More
Love of Woman and Love of God: The Case of Jacob
– Commentary, March 1999.Abstract: The biblical patriarch’s romance with Rachel tells us much about the power of eros–but even more about divine purpose.
The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature
– University Of Chicago Press, May, 1999.The Hungry Soul is a fascinating exploration of the natural and cultural act of eating. Kass brilliantly reveals how the various aspects of this phenomenon, and the customs, rituals, and… More
Leon Kass and the Genesis of Wisdom by Alan Jacobs
– Alan Jacobs, First Things, June/July 2003.Excerpt: Leon Kass’ meditation on the wisdom of Genesis is expansive, curious, fascinatingly rich and digressive. This I claim without reservation, but my next claim begins with a… More
Interview on “NOW with Bill Moyers”
– “NOW with Bill Moyers,” PBS, July 25, 2003.Excerpt: ANNOUNCER: Tonight on NOW WITH BILL MOYERS: Congress defies the FCC decision to give big media more power. BURR: I think we ought to err on the side of looking out for the… More
Natural Law Judaism? The Genesis of Bioethics in Hans Jonas, Leo Strauss, and Leon Kass
– Lawrence Vogel, Hastings Center Report 36 (3):32-43 (May-June 2006).Summary: A full reading of Leon Kass’s writings, setting them in their scholarly lineage, reveals a natural law position colored by religious revelation. Leon Kass is much misunderstood.… More
Natural-Law Judaism?: The Genesis of Bioethics in Hans Jonas, Leo Strauss and Leon Kass
– Lawrence A. Vogel, Hastings Center Report 36:3 (2006).Excerpt: The University of Chicago’s Leon Kass is the most important bioethicist writing out of the work of Hans Jonas today and, as Chairman of President Bush’s Council on… More
Permanent Tensions, Transcendent Prospects
– In Christopher DeMuth and Yuval Levin, eds., Religion and the American Future (Washington, DC: AEI Press, 2008), 83-117.The God-Seeking Animal by Eric Cohen
– Eric Cohen, First Things, April, 2010.Excerpt: On the cover of Being Human, the anthology of writings collected by the President’s Council on Bioethics under Leon Kass’s stewardship, there is a picture of a ballerina… More
Teaching
What’s Wrong with Babel?
– The American Scholar 58 (1): 41-60, Winter 1989.Abstract: Traces the history of God’s working with the people of Israel. Book of Genesis, which teaches God as creator and authority, and man as seeking independence and… More
A Woman for All Seasons
– Commentary, September 1991.Abstract: One often hears it said, and not only by outsiders, that Judaism is a male-dominated religion that does not properly appreciate its women. The blame for this attitude, say many… More
Regarding Daughters and Sisters: The Rape of Dinah
– Commentary, April 1992.Abstract: Ever since I was a boy, long before I had a wife and daughters, I have always thought and keenly felt that rape is a capital offense, a crime worse even than murder. For the… More
Seeing the Nakedness of His Father
– Commentary, June 1992.Abstract: Standing in the large men’s locker room of the National Capitol YMCA, getting dressed after my swim and shower, I overheard a conversation taking place out of my sight, on the… More
The Path Not Taken: Assimilation versus Separation, by Aaron Wildavsky
– Commentary, September 1993.Abstract: To assimilate or to stay apart? That is the question which for centuries has confronted Jews living in the Diaspora. How much may the children of Israel become like their host… More
Why the Dietary Laws?
– Commentary, June 1994.Abstract: A core document of Western civilization, the Torah or Pentateuch has at its center a set of dietary regulations, presented in the eleventh chapter of Leviticus. Though these now… More
Educating Father Abraham: The Meaning of Wife
– First Things, November 1994.Excerpt: It is not exactly traditional to speak about the education of Abraham. Pious tales of the patriarch regard him as a precocious monotheist even before God calls him, a man who… More
Educating Father Abraham: The Meaning of Fatherhood
– First Things, December 1994.Excerpt: My theme is the education of the patriarch Abraham, Father of Judaism, father of Christianity, father of Islam. God Himself undertakes Abraham’s education in order to address and… More
The Need for Piety and Law: A Kristol-Clear Case
– In Christopher De Muth and William Kristol, eds., The Neoconservative Imagination: Essays in Honor of Irving Kristol (Washington, DC: AEI Press, 1995), 112-33.Charity and the Confines of Compassion
– Philanthropy X (2): 5-7 & 28-31, Spring 1996. Reprinted in Amy A. Kass, ed. The Perfect Gift: The Philanthropic Imagination in Poetry and Prose (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002).The Akedah as Final Examination: Abraham, Summa cum Laude
– Sources: The Chicago Journal of Jewish Studies Number II, Spring 1996, 24-31.Farmers, Founders, and Fratricide: The Story of Cain and Abel
– First Things, April 1996.Excerpt: Once one gets right down to it, the difference between liberals and conservatives traces home to a disagreement about the basic source of human troubles. Liberals are inclined to… More
A Genealogy of Justice
– Commentary, July 1996.Abstract: All morally serious people care generally about justice. And when its apparent absence touches them directly, all people, serious or not, find themselves eager for justice. Even… More
Love of Woman and Love of God: The Case of Jacob
– Commentary, March 1999.Abstract: The biblical patriarch’s romance with Rachel tells us much about the power of eros–but even more about divine purpose.
The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature
– University Of Chicago Press, May, 1999.The Hungry Soul is a fascinating exploration of the natural and cultural act of eating. Kass brilliantly reveals how the various aspects of this phenomenon, and the customs, rituals, and… More
Leon Kass and the Genesis of Wisdom by Alan Jacobs
– Alan Jacobs, First Things, June/July 2003.Excerpt: Leon Kass’ meditation on the wisdom of Genesis is expansive, curious, fascinatingly rich and digressive. This I claim without reservation, but my next claim begins with a… More
Interview on “NOW with Bill Moyers”
– “NOW with Bill Moyers,” PBS, July 25, 2003.Excerpt: ANNOUNCER: Tonight on NOW WITH BILL MOYERS: Congress defies the FCC decision to give big media more power. BURR: I think we ought to err on the side of looking out for the… More
Natural Law Judaism? The Genesis of Bioethics in Hans Jonas, Leo Strauss, and Leon Kass
– Lawrence Vogel, Hastings Center Report 36 (3):32-43 (May-June 2006).Summary: A full reading of Leon Kass’s writings, setting them in their scholarly lineage, reveals a natural law position colored by religious revelation. Leon Kass is much misunderstood.… More
Natural-Law Judaism?: The Genesis of Bioethics in Hans Jonas, Leo Strauss and Leon Kass
– Lawrence A. Vogel, Hastings Center Report 36:3 (2006).Excerpt: The University of Chicago’s Leon Kass is the most important bioethicist writing out of the work of Hans Jonas today and, as Chairman of President Bush’s Council on… More
Permanent Tensions, Transcendent Prospects
– In Christopher DeMuth and Yuval Levin, eds., Religion and the American Future (Washington, DC: AEI Press, 2008), 83-117.The God-Seeking Animal by Eric Cohen
– Eric Cohen, First Things, April, 2010.Excerpt: On the cover of Being Human, the anthology of writings collected by the President’s Council on Bioethics under Leon Kass’s stewardship, there is a picture of a ballerina… More