Perspectives
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Super-human Brain Technology Sparks Ethics Debate
Kate Kelland
February 29, 2012
A British ethics group has launched a debate on the ethical dilemmas posed by new technologies that tap into the brain and could bring super-human strength, highly enhanced concentration or thought-controlled weaponry.
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The Global War on Christians in the Muslim World
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
February 6, 2012
We hear so often about Muslims as victims of abuse in the West and combatants in the Arab Spring’s fight against tyranny. But, in fact, a wholly different kind of war is underway--an unrecognized battle costing thousands of lives. Christians are being killed in the Islamic world because of their religion. It is a rising genocide that ought to provoke global alarm.
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Dream of Universal Currency Just Won’t Die
David Wolman
December 27, 2011
The euro zone maelstrom refuses to end. Thanks to the debt crisis, some Greek officials are contemplating dumping the common currency for the drachma. Meanwhile, Italy and Spain teeter. A decade after the shared currency was heralded as a 21st-century tool for peace and prosperity, it turns out that currency unions aren’t such a hot idea.
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Unbelief is Now the World’s Third-largest ‘Religion’
Kimberly Winston
December 19, 2012
A new report on global religious identity shows that while Christians and Muslims make up the two largest groups, those with no religious affiliation--including atheists and agnostics--are now the third-largest “religious” group in the world.
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The Surveillance State: Is This the Price of Living in a ‘Free, Safe’ Society?
By John W. Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute
“If you’re not a terrorist, if you’re not a threat, prove it. This is the price you pay to live in free society right now. It’s just the way it is.”--Sergeant Ed Mullins of the New York Police Department
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The Next Pandemic: Not if, but When
David Quammen
May 9. 2013
Terrible new forms of infectious disease make headlines, but not at the start. Every pandemic begins small. Early indicators can be subtle and ambiguous. When the Next Big One arrives, spreading across oceans and continents like the sweep of nightfall, causing illness and fear, killing thousands or maybe millions of people, it will be signaled first by quiet, puzzling reports from faraway places.