Brave New World Should Be Campaign Issue

Over at First Things I get into how one of the most important questions of our time -- how to maintain a moral biotech sector -- is being ignored in this election season.

Human cloning is being perfected, we are already engaging in embryonic experiments into genetic engineering, and there is a great silence from the media and the candidates.

The last time the media cared about biotechnology was when it hoped to cost George W. Bush a second term for his modest embryonic stem cell funding pol...