The recent revelation of the South Korean stem cell scandal is not only a setback in the quest for the holy grail of medicine ““ that stem cells from human embryos can be produced to replace diseased or injured human tissue ““ but also harms the credibility of the entire area of research. Read more...

Occasionally people e-mail me to ask specific questions about their personal sex lives. While a certain number of these are bored, usually male students with nothing better to do on a Friday night than to send a drunken e-mail to their resident sex columnist, some of these questions are worth answering. Read more...

Intellectual property is now available in a generic brand. In the last couple weeks Wikipedia.org, the highly frequented, free online encyclopedia, has been running a major donation campaign to facilitate expansion. Read more...

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California Republicans, tax fighters and fiscal conservatives are still hurting from the slow-motion train wreck of a special election back in November. It wasn’t just the election outcome, the 0-4 smackdown that Gov. Read more...

Capitalism needs moral defense It was nice to see Sara Triplett’s moral argument against minimum wage laws (“Raising minimum wage restricts worker, employer rights,” Jan. 9). Read more...

Sometimes, a single word can be the difference between freedom and prison. In the U.S., most people take free speech for granted, assuming that we can say almost anything without much risk of legal punishment. Read more...