What a hoot!Part 2:And the finale:Those bad winters seem like the current one. Oh, oh!Dr. Stephen Schneider, who appears at the end of the video to worry that the cure for the ice age might be worse than the disease, is now a global warming alarmist. Ha!HT: . . . . Continue Reading »
A book based on presentations made two years or so ago at the Holocaust Museum of Houston has been released, by the name of Medicine After the Holocaust. I have a chapter on assisted suicide, which is a written version of my presentation at a public debate—link below—against Compassion . . . . Continue Reading »
The Big Hollywood blogger and actor Adam Baldwin, recently of the television series Chuck and Firefly, has taken up his virtual pen to defend Britt Hume from those who have criticized him for suggesting that Tiger Woods should consider Christianity in his time of crisis. Hume made the . . . . Continue Reading »
The subject of torture is once again being widely addressed—at least in certain segments of the blogosphere. But while bloggers and other pundits have entered the fray, the Christian intellectual community has been relatively silent. In the Fall of 2006, Justin Taylor and I decided to host an . . . . Continue Reading »
[Note: This online symposium originally appeared on Evangelical Outpost in November 2006.] “Torture is not always impermissible,” argues Charles Krauthammer in “The Truth About Torture,” his provocative essay in The Weekly Standard. “However rare the cases, there are . . . . Continue Reading »
In a recent Weekly Standard article, “The Truth about Torture,” Charles Krauthammer has questioned the coherence of the McCain amendment passed by the Senate by a vote of 90-9, ostensibly banning under all circumstances “cruel, inhuman, or degrading” treatment of any . . . . Continue Reading »
In his Weekly Standard article, “The Truth about Torture” (December 5, 2005), Charles Krauthammer responds to arguments made by Senator John McCain and codified in the McCain amendment, which would prohibit any “cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment” of any prisoner in . . . . Continue Reading »
Self-preservation is not the ultimate value underlying Christian ethics, and recognition of that fact must underlie any attempt to articulate a Christian response to torture. The specter of terrorists holding information that could save thousands of lives does not alter or eviscerate the . . . . Continue Reading »
This is an argument very much worth having. Charles Krauthammer writes in The Weekly Standard: But if that is the case, then McCain embraces the same exceptions I do, but prefers to pretend he does not. If that is the case, then his much-touted and endlessly repeated absolutism on inhumane treatment . . . . Continue Reading »
Evaluating the “Caiaphas Ethic” of Charles Krauthammer “But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, ‘you know nothing at all, nor do you take into account that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the . . . . Continue Reading »
Subscribe
Latest Issue
Support First Things
