This makes me gnash my teeth: Would any respectable magazine ask the racist David Duke to be part of a benign feature story, say, “What are Your Five Favorite Animals?”Of course not. But Forbes—a money magazine—decided to to give Peter Singer that very forum. Peter Singer . . . . Continue Reading »
According to the local news in Oklahoma City : A bill in the Oklahoma Legislature would allow pregnant women to use deadly force in order to save the lives of their babies. The bill stems from a Michigan case where a woman who was carrying quadruplets stabbed and killed her boyfriend after he hit . . . . Continue Reading »
Ryan Sayre Patrico thinks that Richard Dawkins is silly for saying that, if death is complete annihilation, then it is illogical to fear death. Nevertheless, this was the view of some of our greatest philosophers. Here’s Socrates in the Apology (40c-e): There is good hope that death is a . . . . Continue Reading »
The new head of the department of homeland security now refers to “man-caused” disasters instead of terrorist attacks. Why, you might ask? “That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear toward a policy of being prepared for . . . . Continue Reading »
Assisted suicide advocacy rests on two fundamental ideological premises. First, that we own our bodies and hence, it is the “ultimate civil liberty” to decide on the time, manner, and place of our own demise. Second, that killing is an acceptable answer to the problem of human . . . . Continue Reading »
Following up on my SHS post from earlier today that disagreed with Sally Satel’s push to legalize a market in live kidney donation to ease the organ shortage, I did a little digging on the risks. Although the surgery is generally considered quite safe, and donors appear to live as long as non . . . . Continue Reading »
Psychiatrist Sally Satel, of the American Enterprise Institute, has written about being diagnosed with eventual renal failure and her efforts to jump ahead of the organ waiting list (before going on dialysis) by finding someone to give her a kidney. (Her efforts failed until the author Virgina . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t know why anyone would be surprised by this story. Assisted suicide advocacy rests on two fundamental ideological premises: First, that we own our bodies and it is the “ultimate civil liberty” to decide on the time, manner, and place of our own demise. Second, that killing . . . . Continue Reading »
More from the you-can’t-make-this-stuff-up department: For nearly 30 years, [Ann Holmes] Redding has been an ordained minister in the Episcopal Church. Her priesthood ended Wednesday when she was defrocked. The reason? For the past three years Redding has been both a practicing Christian and . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Slate , Daniel Gross has more on why the owners of the Chicago Sun-Times went bankrupt . Gross points out that, while almost every newspaper in the country is struggling financially, the vast majority of newspapers that have filed for bankruptcy were run by executives who decided to accrue . . . . Continue Reading »
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