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Democracy Journal | Summer 2007 Review of The Future of Marriage, by David Blankenhorn (Encounter Books, 2007) WHEN I came out with a book making the case for same-sex marriage a few years ago, I expected to spend time selling gay marriage to straight people and marriage to gay people. The surprise was how much time I…
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New York Times Book Review | September 3, 2006 MY friends Jenny and Greg were still digesting the news that Jenny was pregnant with triplets when, only moments later, their fertility doctor sat them down. After recounting the many things that might go wrong in a triple pregnancy, he said, “You really should consider reducing.” Overwhelmed…
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National Journal | August 12, 2006 CHALMETTE, LA. — By the time water encroached on the Chalmette Medical Center parking lot, the worst of Hurricane Katrina was over. Upstairs on the second floor, Dr. Bryan Bertucci had spent a sleepless night admitting emergency cases, taking medical histories, conducting physicals. That job done, he caught an…
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National Journal | July 30, 2005 IN JUNE, conservatives howled when the Supreme Court upheld the right of New London, Conn., to condemn an entire neighborhood in order to make room for private development. House Republicans, in particular, took turns denouncing the Court’s decision in Kelo v. New London. Among them was Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C.…
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The New Republic | May 30, 2005 IN 2003, when a bare majority of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ordered the state to recognize gay marriages, the three dissenting judges based their opposition largely on children. “It is difficult to imagine a State purpose more important and legitimate than ensuring, promoting, and supporting an optimal…
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The Wall Street Journal | December 27, 2004 President Reagan, ever the optimist, loved a story about a boy who yelps with delight at a pile of dung, digging into it eagerly with both hands. “With all this manure,” says the boy, “there must be a pony in here somewhere!” Nearly two months after the…
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The Public Interest, Fall 2004 JOHN Sperling, a man who has been called the Howard Hughes of biotechnology, has $3 billion and a dream: to retard aging and extend human longevity. According to a recent article in Wired magazine, he intends to found an endowment generating at least $150 million a year for biotech research. “I am…
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The New York Times Magazine | March 7, 2004 IN ENDORSING the passage of a constitutional amendment that would restrict marriage to the union of men and women, President Bush established himself as the country’s most prominent advocate of same-sex marriage. To be more precise, he established himself as the most prominent advocate of the best…
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National Journal | July 26, 2003 “I WAS A LIGHTWEIGHT trading on a famous name, they said.” That was George W. Bush, then still governor of Texas, writing in his 1999 book, A Charge to Keep. He might have been pleased to know that “they,” the purveyors of conventional wisdom, had said the same of…
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National Journal | July 26, 2003 “I WAS A LIGHTWEIGHT trading on a famous name, they said.” That was George W. Bush, then still governor of Texas, writing in his 1999 book, A Charge to Keep. He might have been pleased to know that “they,” the purveyors of conventional wisdom, had said the same of Franklin Delano…