Stories by Ralph Brave

is a graduate student in psychology at the Saybrook Institute in San Francisco and a Sacramento-area resident.

James Watson Wants to Build a Better Human

Posted on May 29, 2003, Source: AlterNet

Look out: Legendary DNA scientist has laid out a strategic framework for moving science and society toward a new eugenics.

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Review: 'Enough' by Bill McKibben

Q&A: Bill McKibben on Staying Human

Review: 'Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age' by Bill McKibben

Posted on May 29, 2003, Source: The Nation

The ability to engineer human beings to be "better" leads us to a difficult decision: Aren't we good enough already?

Joel Kovel Battling Nader for Green Party Presidential Nomination

Posted on Apr 1, 2000, Source: Sacramento News & Review

Although Ralph Nader is considered by some to be a shoe-in for the Green Party presidential nomination, he won't get there unchallenged. In an eye-opening interview, alternative Green Party Candidate Joel Kovel (a controversial activist and former Green candidate for U.S. Senate) lays out his vision of the Green agenda, his differences with Nader and why he sees socialism as a necessary component to Green Party politics.