More on Mr. Pinker

My post was a little off-the-cuff. But smarter people have been blogging about Stephen Pinker's recent article on human dignity, and here's the rundown:

—the essays in question, which I have not read and cannot say much about.
—Yuval Levin's response to Pinker. He believes that Pinker misrepresents Leon Kass and the makeup of the Bioethics Council in general.
—Ross Douthat doesn't like Pinker's tone of voice, but doesn't say much about dignity vs. autonomy.
—Pinker doesn't understand what the Council means by “dignity,” nor does he understand the nature of fiction in general, according to Alan Jacobs.
—Someone has to sort the wheat from the chaff in Pinker's article, and it looks like Noah Millman is the man for the job.
—Helen from the Cigarette Smoking Blog makes an important but cryptic point about trans-humanism. Dignity seems to be something like an essence of humanity: improve humanity, sure, but don't try to make it something else.
—I really don't understand what James Poulos is talking about.
—But at least somebody out there is enthusiastic about the article.