A UK bioethicist named Daniel K. Sokol, who writes nary a word in opposition to Futile Care Theory, aka medical futility (meaning, I suspect, he is a futilitarian), has nonetheless written a valuable informative essay in the British Medical Journal (no link, 13 JUNE 2009 | Volume 338) called . . . . Continue Reading »
What can one say about such things?From BBC last week:One in four South African men questioned in a survey said they had raped someone, and nearly half of them admitted more than one attack.The study, by the country’s Medical Research Council, also found three out of four who admitted rape had . . . . Continue Reading »
Since its publication in 1951, J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye has been the favored bildungsroman novel of the American teen. At least it was, that is, before the arrival of the current generation of discerning readers : Teachers say young readers just don’t like Holden as much as . . . . Continue Reading »
This is a warning of what could befall the USA if we allow centralized bioethical planning to become part of health care reform. In the UK, utilitarian bioethicists control who gets—and who is denied—treatment via the Orwellian named organization NICE (National Institute for Health . . . . Continue Reading »
President Obama just abruptly and unceremoniously put his Bioethics Council to rest and our own Peter Lawler, a member of the commission, writes its eulogy explaining the importance of its work and of the issues it addressed. While the website still exists, I encourage any and all to take a . . . . Continue Reading »
Assisted suicide is many things; abandonment, lethal, dangerous, discriminatory—but to its supporters, merciful and respectful of individual autonomy. But it is not medicine. Everyone knows this, of course. But to gain public respectability and thereby gain legalization, advocates . . . . Continue Reading »
So any postmodern conservative who would want to give the strongest possible case for Walt Whitman would begin, as I have, with a long footnote to the 1876 preface to his LEAVES OF GRASS: Given the necessarily inegalitarian manifestations of human greatness of war and politics that Whitman . . . . Continue Reading »
Matt Archibiold discusses Sam Mendes’ latest anti-suburbia flick : Essentially, Mendes seems to adopt the view of literary urbanista types that the suburbs are a death filled wasteland. I find this attitude weird firstly as a business decision because it seems to me that mocking where most . . . . Continue Reading »
Now that it is obvious that engaging Iran was a delusional misstep, President Obama should denounce the Iranian regime as a rogue state that employs terrorism against its own people as well as overseas. It is time for a Reaganesque statement. The administration should say, in so many . . . . Continue Reading »
On matters of policy, the election of President Obama has been a decisive setback for the pro-life cause. On the rhetorical front, however, he may provide some indirect benefit. Because he promises to hold the line on the legal front, Obama provides a cover for pro-choice advocates to express their . . . . Continue Reading »
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