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Advocates for universal health are often heard declaring that health care should be a “universal right.” Avik Roy, at Forbes, argues that whether one considers health care a positive or negative right, the claim is problematic: It’s a great applause line, isn’t it, to say that “health care is a universal human right.” But after […]

While Descartes famously argued that animals “eat without pleasure, cry without pain, grow without knowing it; they desire nothing, fear nothing, know nothing,” modern scientific research is demonstrating that they may have much more cognitive capacity than we have recognized.  John Jeremiah Sullivan explains in Lapham’s Quarterly: New animal behaviors and capacities are observed in […]

Advocates for universal health are often heard declaring that health care should be a “universal right.” Avik Roy, at Forbes, argues that whether one considers health care a positive or negative right, the claim is problematic: It’s a great applause line, isn’t it, to say that “health care is a universal human right.” But after […]

While Descartes famously argued that animals “eat without pleasure, cry without pain, grow without knowing it; they desire nothing, fear nothing, know nothing,” modern scientific research is demonstrating that they may have much more cognitive capacity than we have recognized.  John Jeremiah Sullivan explains in Lapham’s Quarterly: New animal behaviors and capacities are observed in […]