American Enterprise Institute (AEI) president Arthur C. Brooks has announced that AEI scholar Leon R. Kass, M.D., is the recipient of AEI’s 2012 Irving Kristol Award. Dr. Kass will receive the award and deliver the Irving Kristol Lecture at AEI’s annual dinner on Wednesday, May 2, 2012, at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.

Leon Kass of AEI and University of Chicago delivered the February Bradley Lecture.

In our new world of biotechnology, gathering powers to intervene in human bodies and minds raise profound challenges to the meaning of our humanity. Crucial to meeting those challenges is a robust notion of human dignity—the special...

This volume is the edited transcript of a discussion of the ethics and policy issues of research on so-called test tube babies.

In his recent book Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics (Encounter Books, 2002), Leon Kass gives a report on the status of biotechnology and the perils of ignoring human dignity as it relates to scientific advancements.

Trained...

Athletic steroid use sends the wrong message: while we should be valuing ourselves, we are instead valuing performance.

We are walking too quickly down the road to physical and psychological utopia without pausing to assess the potential damage to our humanity from this brave new biology.

Charges that the President's Council on Bioethics is stacked with political and religious conservatives aremalicious and false.

A groundbreaking new exploration of the promises and perils of biotechnology--and the future of American society.