An episode of CBS-TV’s mystery series Eleventh Hour entered the debate over stem cells to make a strong and valid scientific point with important moral and political implications. It did more to educate viewers about the issue than the network’s news programs have ever done.
A new essay by S. T. Karnick outlines and refutes "the American fantasy that both individuals and society as a whole can overcome every obstacle to our numerous desires, provided we only wish strongly enough and get our friends on our side." It also points out how the recent comedy film Marley and Me constitutes a refreshing criticism of this vulgar and adolescent fantasy of godlike power.
Dennis Prager, a thoughtful writer about politics and other subjects, makes a very good point in an article praising a new Broadway play that bucks the trend of recent decades on the Great White Way by unapologetically presenting a Christian as an unambiguous heroine. Prager points out that whereas our culture’s strong strain of Rousseauan assumptions makes us unduly mystified by evil and thereby fascinated with it, what is really difficult to explain is the great amount of human goodness in the world:
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