Zombie Mania

Pop Bioethics has a fun article out describing how a bioethicist might analyze the ethics of euthanizing zombies. But beneath the tongue in cheek, I see a serious point to be made about the threat of bioethics to human exceptionalism and universal human rights.

Halloween seems like an appropriate time of year to confess that I often compare myself to a zombie. And not because I'm on a constant quest for "Brains..."

It's a sad fact, but zombies just aren't that frightening anymore.

Movie zombies are slow and constantly getting shot in the face, but even they don't show the everyday problems you'd encounter while piloting around a rotting, barely coherent corpse.

Second, zombies represent a single, massive, shared threat that impacts the lives of every single character in the story. Their impact is so overwhelming that each character's life is shaken up, which means that the affected ...

ABC NewsGail Collins: If world doesn't end, will zombie craze fade?Post-BulletinWe are going to talk about the end of the world and the zombie apocalypse. Honestly, this is a big deal.

Villafane carved his zombie tableau "out of the three largest pumpkins in the United States—about 1,800 lbs. each!

Since releasing the first novels in "The Zombie Bible," I've heard from a lot of readers asking me what zombies have to do with the Bible -- or what the Bible has to do with zombies. The answer is a lot, and I'm not just talking about the Bible's numerous references to either the risen dead or the restless dead.

I used to have nightmares about zombies on a semi-regular basis.

We've been watching zombie movies for decades now, and over the years there have been a ton of sweet zombie kills. But the old shotgun-and-baseball-bat-bash can get old after a while. Luckily, there have been some much ...

From "World War Z" to "The Walking Dead" to "Shaun of the Dead" to "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" and countless brain-dead rip-offs, zombies — re-animated corpses with an unstoppable...