David Skeel writes in the Wall Street Journal about an emerging conundrum in the law: How to separate the confession of sins from the confession of crimes, especially when that act takes place in a non-traditional or ambiguously religious context. Taking the case of a recently-apprehended murderer . . . . Continue Reading »
Single Dads by Choice Jennifer Ludden, NPR Benedict XVI and Catholic Ecology William L. Patenaude, Catholic World Report Brain Death: An Orthodox Jewish Take Daniel Riefman, Tradition Dying, Without Reason, in Massachusetts Hadley Arkes, The Catholic Thing The Ronald Knox . . . . Continue Reading »
The right to life is morphing before our very eyes into a right to death. Witness the recent Canadian judge who ruled, in essence, that there is a right to suicide because it isn’t a crime to kill oneself. In the UK, in the meanwhile, Tony Nicklinson—whose lawsuit seeking the . . . . Continue Reading »
For those of you in the Pittsburgh/Youngstown/Cleveland area: the Society of St. John Chrysostom is sponsoring a lecture on the Coptic Church in Egypt by Youssef Ragheb, an MD who teaches Egyptian Arabic at the University of Pittsburgh. The lecture will be held on Tuesday, July 10th at 7 . . . . Continue Reading »
If you want another reason to be pessimistic about Greece, take a look at the shameful wrangling over cabinet post during an emergency. Do you think these petty, disgusting people will be able to stick to reforms in the face of resistance from entrenched interests and the loathing of a . . . . Continue Reading »
An article of mine was published last week in the Center for Public Justice’s Capital Commentary:This year marks the 225th anniversary of the United States Constitution, by far the oldest functioning constitutional document still in effect. It has weathered the vicissitudes of history, . . . . Continue Reading »
As promised, here is something I wrote about Chuck Colson for Christian Courier. It appeared in the 14 May issue:As a young man, I cut my political teeth on the Watergate scandal, which brought down a sitting president and led to the conviction and incarceration of several members of his . . . . Continue Reading »
Obviously we’ve all been thinking a lot lately about Tocqueville’s problem of the democratic state recognizing no other institutions as roughly coequal sources of social legitimacy and power. Society needs what Neuhaus and Berger called “mediating institutions” that preserve . . . . Continue Reading »
Some attention was given to China’s one-child policy with Vice President Joe Biden off-handedly expressed sympathy for it, but the moral horror the policy evokes in most has yet to lead to real opposition. Writing in the American Spectator , Jing Zhang of Women’s Right in China urges us . . . . Continue Reading »
We are often told that Canada’s single payer health system is the ideal for the USA. I once believed it. No longer. Canada rations care, occasionally by refusing coverage but mostly by loooo—ooo—ooong waits for needed tests and care. True, the country is trying to improve, . . . . Continue Reading »
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