by Heather Zeiger | Jul 19, 2019 | Announcements, Book Review, Salvo, Society
My recent article in Salvo Issue 49 (by subscription) looks at the book The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. The book is based on an article by Lukianoff and...
by Heather Zeiger | Apr 12, 2019 | Announcements, bioethics, Human Dignity, Salvo, Society
I took over the Biohazards column in Salvo Magazine from Paige Cunningham at The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity. The Biohazards column addresses bioethics issues in our culture. For my inaugural piece, I wrote about selecting embryos for intelligence: “Gene...
by Heather Zeiger | Apr 8, 2019 | Announcements, Salvo, Science, Society
My Casualty Report for Salvo Issue 48 is on the increase of vaping among teens. I wrote this report just as the FDA was investigating whether Juul, the largest provider of vaping liquids, knowingly targeted teens. Teen vaping had increased so much in the last two...
by Heather Zeiger | Sep 21, 2018 | bioethics, Ethics, Human Dignity, Salvo
My Casualty Report in Salvo Issue #46 is on modern-day eugenics. The United Nations Population Fund estimates that there are 117 million women believed to be “missing” in various parts of Asia and Eastern Europe due to sex-selective abortion and child...
by Heather Zeiger | Apr 19, 2018 | Announcements, Salvo, Society
Salvo Issue #44 has some great articles on living as a whole person in a broken world. I was particularly impressed with “Suffer These Children: True Confessions of a Guardian ad Litem” by Raymond J. Brown, who serves as a court-appointed special advocate...
by Heather Zeiger | Feb 8, 2018 | Announcements, Salvo, Society
My latest Casualty Report has recent statistics on pornography and its affects on society. The title of the article comes from the hypothetical scenario I draw of an alien that visits Earth and found that in one year humans watched 4.6 billion hours of pornography....
