I have an extended piece in the Weekly Standard on the Montana judge declaring it a “fundamental right” do “die with dignity”—e.g. to poison oneself with prescribed drugs—which as I noted in an earlier SHS posting about this, may be the only time that an advocacy . . . . Continue Reading »
Secondhand Smokette and I decided to go on a date and, against our better judgment, went to see The Day the Earth Stood Still. We expected some enviro-propaganda, but I must say it was even more extreme than I expected. I wrote about it over at the First Things blog:Earth pushes the mantra of . . . . Continue Reading »
My wife and I decided to go see The Day the Earth Stood Still , which, based on reviews, we expected to be radically green. But it is much more than that. Earth pushes the mantra of deepest ecology: Humans are the literal enemy of Earth, which, the script strongly implies, is a living entity. At . . . . Continue Reading »
I have written several times about Dr. Hootan C. Roozrokh, who was once accused criminally of trying to hasten a patient’s death with drugs after he didn’t die when his respirator was removed prior to a planned organ procurement. Dr. Roozrokh had no business even being in the operating . . . . Continue Reading »
What an expensive joke the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has become. Conflicts of interest are rife, leading to a Little Hoover Commission investigation. Management meltdowns have mixed with an incredible sense of entitlement and hubris. Hundreds of millions that were promised to go . . . . Continue Reading »
The Economist ‘s Intelligent Life magazine has an article in its Winter issue investigating the relationship between faith and families. Among the scholars mentioned in the piece is Mary Eberstadt, who wrote “The Vindication of Humanae Vitae ” for the August/September issue of . . . . Continue Reading »
Few pieces of music I know capture the mystery of the Incarnation better than Victoria’s motet “O Magnum Mysterium.” The words are: O magnum mysterium, et admirabile sacramentum, ut animalia viderent Dominum natum, jacentem in praesepio! Beata Virgo, cujus viscera meruerunt . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday in St. Patrick’s Cathedral a crowd of 750 bid farewell to Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. in a beautiful funeral Mass. Fordham University and the New York Times have accounts of the occasion. . . . . Continue Reading »
Many conservatives hope political pressure will force Obama to move to the center. There’s indeed good reason to expect that he will pursue a moderate economic and foreign policy, but he seems wholly set on preserving and strengthening the Roe regime and supporting other socially liberal . . . . Continue Reading »
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Jay Bookman has written a difficult but, I think, important column on the distinction between the moral value of a beloved dog coming to the end of its life and those of human beings. Any pet owner can only have great empathy for the grief Bookman is . . . . Continue Reading »
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