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The accommodationists review the history of innovation. In the '50s, when artificial insemination with donor semen was introduced, many ethicists said it separated procreation from marriage in a destructive way. Pope Pius XII, who denounced artificial insemination even from husband to wife, declared, "To reduce the cohabitation of married persons...
Scientists working with artificial intelligence have a fantasy -- who knows if it is more than that? -- that eventually all the contents of the human brain, a life, can be gradually emptied into a brilliant, nondecaying, stainless, deathless sort of robotic personoid. And when the transfer of all the vast and...
But howls of a different kind of discrimination have risen over educational plains in recent years, with critics charging that schools like Harvard use quotas to maintain an artificial racial balance in the student body, limiting the number of Asian-Americans admitted despite their high standards of achievement.
"American conservatism is a term whose very meaning was shaped and colored by the cold war," says Harries. "Perhaps there's now a problem with the labeling." Actually, there has always been a problem. Labels foster simplistic divisions and artificial alliances. This book may mark the end of at least...
Not too long ago, ersatz eggs -- whether artificial, powdered or untimely ripped from their shells by food marketers -- symbolized the culinary conflict between technology and taste. No fake food was more reviled than the powdered eggs of old-time Army K rations, while even the lowliest luncheonette could take pride...