The Abolition of Man? ‘…(T)he reader who trudges through Kass must eventually wonder whether the

ethicist is confusing the map with the territory. Conservatives have long been known, in William F.

Buckley’s famous phrase, for standing athwart history yelling “Stop!” But when did they start insisting

that history which does not go their way isn’t actually history at all?

On closer examination, what worries these writers isn’t that human nature might change in the future. It’s

that human nature might not be what they think it is right now.’ Reason