Victor Davis Hanson laments about the Golden State’s tarnish. It is not overstatement to state that they rival the splitting of the atom in potential benefit and peril.Ģ. CRISPR gene editing and other fast advancing biotechnologies - such as the creation of artificial life forms - are among humankind’s most portentous and powerful inventions. Such research anarchy (if you will) is dangerous. At least to a small degree, ethics outsourcing has already started. The bioethicist William Hurlbut worries that we could be entering an era of “outsourcing ethics,” by which he means Western universities and companies circumventing our laws by conducting research in countries with loose standards. Wesley Smith calls out gene-splicing biotech researchers in Red China, where “ethics” seem to be non-existent. But whenever you get the chance to see it, do, and remember from whence it comes - from the East, and bearing gifts.īONUS: Check out NRO’s Epiphany Day Celebrations slide show.Īn Onslaught of Brilliant NRO Pieces that Will Instigate a Slew of Intellectual Epiphaniesġ. It would be darned fitting if film aired. Too bad, Turner Classic Movies won’t be showing it tomorrow. It’s a terrific film, warts and melodrama and all. and also there was the sombrero’d Pedro Armendáriz). Just three years later, with John Ford directing, and Carey again starring, the story was remade as Marked Men (it’s a lost film), and then Hollywood tried again, with a 1929 version (directed by William Wyler and titled Hell’s Heroes) and then a 1936 version (titled Three Godfathers, and starring Chester Morris of “Boston Blackie” fame - his fellow padrini were Lewis Stone, aka Judge Hardy, and the great Walter Brennan).Īnd then Ford tried again, in 1948, with the slightly altered title 3 Godfathers, starring John Wayne and Harry Carey Jr. In 1916, Harry Carey starred in The Three Godfathers, the story (based on Peter Kyne’s popular 1913 novel) of a trio of outlaws who come across a dying woman and her baby in the desert. The Magi and their symbolism and meaning can still pack a theological and cultural punch, and for over a century have found a welcome home in Hollywood, where scriptwriters have traded turbans for 10-gallons and sandals for spurs and robes for chaps and camels for mustangs. Sunday being January 6, the Twelfth Day of Christmas, Christians - at least those who still practice - will religiously mark it as the Feast of the Epiphany, when the Three Wise Men arrived in Bethlehem with their gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh for the Son of God.
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