I have a piece up on To The Source discussing the serious charge that the Liverpool Care Pathway, intended to ensure that no patient dies in unalleviated pain, has mutated into back door euthanasia. I explain why palliative sedation is not killing, and then show how what should be a very . . . . Continue Reading »
Roger Williams, the dissident Puritan statesman who founded Rhode Island after being exiled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635, has become something of a touchstone for everyone from middle-school textbook writers to politicians looking to add a rhetorical flourish to an upcoming . . . . Continue Reading »
Writing for cityArts , Maureen Mullarkey reviews a new exhibition at the DC Moore Gallery, American (ir)religiosity : Censorship battles over sexually explicit imagery have been won. That old X-rated thrill is gone. Nowadays, organs and orifices are as transgressive as your parish bulletin. . . . . Continue Reading »
Focus on the Family’s Glenn Stanton notes that St. Francis never actually said “Preach the Gospel always. If necessary, use words.” and that his own apostolate shows the inadequacy of the quip. You know what it’s supposed to mean, and there is an error to which it’s a . . . . Continue Reading »
The New England Journal of Medicine has long advocated assisted suicide in its pages. It now has a piece supposedly rebutting opponents of legalizing assisted suicide in Oregon. For example, it says that assisted suicide was not carried out on people with mental illnesses. How we . . . . Continue Reading »
Leroy Huizenga questions whether “conservative” churches are really growing : The Episcopal Church is in the news again for the usual reasons. First, a few days ago it was reported that the Episcopal Church suffered a 23 percent decline in attendance from 2000 to 2010. Second, on . . . . Continue Reading »
Joseph Stiglitz, an economist who won the Nobel-Prize for his work in information economics, observed in a recent column that, “for male workers, inflation-adjusted median incomes are lower today than they were in 1968.” The data Stiglitz used came from a recent Census . . . . Continue Reading »
Reparative Therapy Renounced Erik Eckholm, New York Times Even More About NFIB v. Sebelius Tom Christina, Library of Law & Liberty David Oderberg’s New Location Via Edward Feser, David S. Soderberg Front Porched Avengers David Masciotra, Front Porch Republic William Gilpin’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Adam Kirsch has a charming essay marking the 100 birthday of literary critic M. H. Abrams over at the Tablet , one well worth reading. I may have read Abrams’ most famous work of criticism, The Mirror and the Lamp (1953), as an undergraduate or graduate student. But it was his other big book, . . . . Continue Reading »
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