Looking Ahead to Obama’s Bioethics Commission

January 5, 2010

President Obama’s decision to name Amy Gutmann and James W. Wagner to lead his new Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues is an inspired one. Wagner is an engineer and president of Emory University, where he’s earned high marks for his devotion to the ideals of liberal learning. Former provost at Princeton and now president of the University of Pennsylvania, Gutmann is a political philosopher whose work explores, among other themes, the subject of moral disagreement in a democracy. (Bioethics Forum)