SOURCE: Appleyard, Bryan. “Well, Hello Dolly—and Goodbye.” New Statesman (9 October 1998): 45-6.

In the following review of Clones and Clones, a collection of essays edited by Nussbaum and Cass R. Sunstein, Appleyard concludes that the book as a whole is not convincing.

This book [Clones and Clones] contains a great comic sentence. It is at the start of Richard Dawkins' essay, “What's Wrong with Cloning?” Here it is (the punchline is the parenthesis): “Science and logic cannot tell us what is right and what is wrong (Dawkins, 1998).” So there you have it: the great crisis of the Enlightenment, the shocking thought that an “ought” cannot be derived from an “is”. But you don't have to read Kant or trouble yourself with Hume, you don't even have to read early Dawkins. No, “Dawkins '98” should see you right. As with all the best gags, you don't know whether to...