Environmentalism is mutating from a movement organized around conserving resources, maintaining proper standards of environmental cleanliness, and protecting endangered species, as it promotes human prosperity, into a quasi-earth religion that seeks to “save the planet”—from us. . . . . Continue Reading »
The thing about gay marriage, Sam Schulman says in the Weekly Standard , is not that it’s wrong, but that it just won’t work. Most people who object to it, he says, aren’t caught up with religious objections about what the Bible says or sexual acts being “open to . . . . Continue Reading »
Wesley writes that conscience clauses should include this principle: “No medical professional should be forced to take, or be complicit in the taking of human life, whether of an embryo, fetus, or born member of the species.” The principle is sound but the language isn’t. No one . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the myths about the assisted suicide movement is that it “only” wants “terminally ill people for whom nothing else can be done to alleviate suffering” to have a “right to die with dignity.” That is a false premise, but beside that point, it is a blatant . . . . Continue Reading »
Rocco Palmo has the roundup . . . . . Continue Reading »
What a remarkable woman : With a video camera hidden in her backpack, college student Lila Rose has become a rising star in the U.S. anti-abortion movement for her clandestine tactics in taking on Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest provider of surgical abortions. Rose stages her own . . . . Continue Reading »
Nothing says memento mori like a human skull. Saint Jerome never appears without one, and neither should you.Now you, too, can give the gift of awareness of human frailty and the transience of life for the great bargain price of $12.50, thanks to our friends at American Science and Surplus. This is . . . . Continue Reading »
So Scientology is on trial again—this time in France, and this time for fraud. It seems that a woman who took a free “personality test” was then sold a bill of goods in the form of vitamins, books, and dubious “cures” for psychological problems—to the tune of . . . . Continue Reading »
What is the truth value of mourning? That is, what does mourning tell us about the truth? Mourning is one of the most powerful and universal emotions. It is such a basic, pre-reflective, and pervasive response to the loss of a loved one that it appears to be part of the hard wiring of human . . . . Continue Reading »
Few doctors take the Hippocratic Oath anymore. But many still believe in its maxims, including not to perform abortions, assist in suicides, or otherwise harm patients or other human life.Conscience clauses are controversial. President Obama said at Notre Dame that he believes in them—but his . . . . Continue Reading »
Subscribe
Latest Issue
Support First Things
