The political scientist Francis Canavan died on Thursday , February 26, at the age of ninety-one—yet another of the great good ones lost to us in recent months. Among his works for First Things were: ” The Popes and the Economy ” in 1991, ” Letting Go How We Die ” in . . . . Continue Reading »
John Celmer, the man whose death is the subject of the Final Exit Network assisted suicide criminal charges, was not terminally ill. Indeed, he had apparently beaten his cancer. From the story: John Celmer was making what his doctor considered “remarkable progress” last spring after two . . . . Continue Reading »
Assisted suicide advocates pretend that they support hospice, but their work undermines the entire concept, or at least, twists it into something that would be unrecognizable by its creator, Dame Cecily Saunders. But now a lawyer named Michael Kaminkow, who is defending two of the Final Exit Network . . . . Continue Reading »
There she goes again—meaning Compassion (Hemlock Society) and Choices head Barbara Coombs Lee—pushing the baloney that assisted suicide is only about preventing unalieviable suffering for the terminally ill. Worse, she engages in irresponsible demogoguery about proper care of dying . . . . Continue Reading »
It was a given that the Obama Administration would attack the “Bush Conscience Clause.” And that process has begun. But it may a revision rather than a rescission, and indeed, perhaps one I could support. From the story:The administration took the step because the regulation was so . . . . Continue Reading »
I was recently asked to assume more responsibilities for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. I agreed and am now its associate director. This new gig will include speaking, writing, and media on the specific topic of euthanasia/assisted suicide. It will not affect nor . . . . Continue Reading »
Jet lagged from my recent journey to Ireland/UK, where there is an 8 hour time difference, and up at 3:30 AM, I decided to see what I had missed at The Corner and ran across an entry by Jonah Goldberg discussing a debate between two philosophers, Alvin Plantinga and Daniel Dennett. Plantinga . . . . Continue Reading »
It might not be tens of thousands of years old like its nominative English counterpart, but the accusative/objective pronoun me is hardly a neologism, much less a confining Victorian corruption. So wrote Benjamin A. Plotinsky earlier this week, over at City Journal . You might be rolling your eyes: . . . . Continue Reading »
“Officials said the Obama administration’s goal is to make the rule clearer.” I’d say the administration is being pretty clear about its priorities. . . . . Continue Reading »
At the British magazine Standpoint , George Walden is fed up with his fellow Europeans’ incoherent and illogical anti-Americanism: There is something neurotic in Europe’s view of the US, something perpetually out of kilter. Think of the crush on Bill Clinton felt by many women, the . . . . Continue Reading »
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