Yuval Levin

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The Solution to Israel’s Crisis Might Be in America’s Constitution

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The political crisis engulfing Israel has raised profound and fundamental questions about the roots of democratic legitimacy. Now that the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blinked, and a vote on its proposed transformation of the judiciary has been delayed, Israelis might just have a chance to consider those broader questions and negotiate toward some long-needed political reforms. As they contemplate such prospects, they should consider the experience of America’s Constitution makers.

Israel’s regime has always struggled with the basic task of liberal democracy: to balance majority rule with minority rights. Israeli democracy is hyper-concentrated. It consists of a unicameral, or single-house, legislature, and essentially no competing democratically legitimate power centers.…  Seguir leyendo »

Fue un error dejar que los niños entraran a las redes sociales. Pero podemos corregirlo

ReflexionesSocial

Tener hijos siempre ha estado lleno de culpas y preocupaciones, pero cada vez más padres en la época de las redes sociales enfrentan un tipo de impotencia particularmente intensa. Sus hijos son sujetos involuntarios en un experimento singular de las formas sociales humanas, pues deben desarrollar hábitos y relaciones en un ambiente indómito diseñado sobre todo para maximizar la participación intensiva en beneficio de los anunciantes.

No es que las redes sociales no tengan un valor rescatable, pero en general no son un lugar para los niños. Si Instagram o TikTok fueran lugares físicos en tu vecindario, probablemente nunca dejarías a tus hijos, aunque fueran adolescentes, ir ahí solos.…  Seguir leyendo »

ReflexionesPensamiento, Cultura y Ciencia,

In announcing his policy on federal funding of stem cell research, President Obama inadvertently cast a bright light on a dangerous temptation in science policy that ought to give Americans pause.

What you think of his policy depends on what you think of the moral status of embryos. If (as modern biology informs us) conception initiates a human life, and if (as the Declaration of Independence asserts) every human life is equally deserving of some minimal protections, government support for the destruction of human embryos for research raises profound moral problems. But if you think an embryo is not quite a person, or that its immaturity or inability to suffer pain or its other qualities mean that destroying an embryo does not amount to taking a life, the promise of stem cell science might well outweigh any doubts.…  Seguir leyendo »

MundoAmérica,

With each new round of argument, the ethical questions at the heart of the embryonic stem cell debate get buried under more layers of hype and confusion.

Backers of a House bill, approved last week, that would loosen the limits on federal support for the research argue that there is now a “ban” on financing, that embryonic stem cells will cure tens of millions and that current federal policy sets American scientists behind their foreign counterparts. But the Bush administration has spent more than $100 million on embryonic stem cell research in the past six years; the research, while promising, remains purely speculative; and American scientists hold a huge and steady lead that no other country comes close to challenging.…  Seguir leyendo »