Usually my wife Debra J. Saunders—better known as Secondhand Smokette—and I plow different fields in our writing. But once in a while, our interests converge, as in a few weeks ago when she wrote a splendid column about animal rights violence directed against researchers in Santa Cruz, . . . . Continue Reading »
This bit from Monty Python’s THE MEANING OF LIFE, PART 1, is terribly gross and over the top, but it has the germ of a point and came to mind in our discussion of the growing advocacy within bioethics and organ transplant medicine to do away with the dead donor rule and allow living patients . . . . Continue Reading »
So just when you thought the right was left behind when it came to big-budget Hollywood satire, along comes David Zucker of Airplane! and Naked Gun fame to poke a little fun at none other than multimillionaire mockumentarian Michael Moore. It’s called An American Carol and stars Kelsey . . . . Continue Reading »
This is Part 2 of my deconstruction of an article in the NEJM proposing to end the dead donor rule in organ transplantation. Hit this link to read Part 1:In the end, since the authors of “The Dead Donor Rule and Organ Transplantation” apparently believe we can’t really get many . . . . Continue Reading »
I have now read “The Dead Donor Rule and Organ Transplantation” in the NEJM (359:7, August 14, 2008), by Robert D. Troug, MD, a physician at Harvard Medical School, and Franklin D. Miller, a bioethicist at the NIH. It makes for frightening reading. My comments will of necessity be long, . . . . Continue Reading »
A couple of months ago, assistant editor Nathaniel Peters linked to an article in the Atlantic which made the disturbing suggestion that what you are doing right now is making you stupider. Nathaniel didn’t think that he, at least, had suffered much: Since coming to First Things, I’ve . . . . Continue Reading »
I have spoken before about my friend, Manolo the Shoe Blogger . Well, I call him my friend, though, in fact, we’ve only exchanged emails. But he is a brilliant writer who has established, for his blogging, the faux voice of an Italian fashion obsessive whose English is much worse than he . . . . Continue Reading »
Speaking of the train , Stefan, I’m new to the city, which means there are a lot of things I need to learn before I can start getting from here to there without scratching my head a few times. Of course, one of the first hurdles I’ve had to overcome was navigating the sprawling MTA . . . . Continue Reading »
Most people I interact with, whatever their stated moral views, seem so basically sane, sensible, and decent that I’ve lately begun to wonder whether cultural conservatives exaggerate when they proclaim a national decline into everlasting adolescence. But then again, no. While waiting for the . . . . Continue Reading »
The drive to instill Futile Care Theory is back in high gear after a bit of a respite. But here’s a pleasant surprise: One Eric Gampel, a bioethicist from California State University, Chico, pushes back against the concept of imposing “professional autonomy” in the futile care . . . . Continue Reading »
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