Most Economics That Is Taught In College

I Think Too Often In Our Society Parents, Who May Have Good Impulses, Overreach And Try To Mold And Shape And Direct Their Child.

I Almost Became A Political Journalist, Having Worked As A Reporter At The Time Of Watergate. The Proximity To Those Events Motivated Me, When I Wound Up Doing Philosophy, To Try To Use It To Move The Public Debate.

Parenthood Is A School For Humility. We Can't Choose The Precise Traits Of Our Children, And That Is Morally Important. It Teaches Us What William May, A Theologian Whom I Greatly Admire, Calls "an Openness To The Unbidden."

In Most Of Our Lives, We Are Accustomed To Aiming At Mastery And Control And Dominion- - Over Nature, Over Our Lives, Over Our Jobs, Over Our Careers, Over The Goods That We Buy.

I Am Trying To Get At The Moral Arguments And The Ethical Status Of Various Attempts At Enhancement, Or Genetic Engineering, Or The Bid For Designer Children. But There Are Implications For Society At Large.