Day after day we are assaulted with the idea, fundamental to the assisted suicide movement, that some lives are not worth living and hence, not worth protecting from suicide. This advocacy, I believe, does not really promote liberty and freedom, but rather, endangers lives—of the elderly, . . . . Continue Reading »
Then there’s this, from the March 2001 Public Square : They try their best, but Ross G. Douthat, a Harvard junior who started reading First Things when he was twelve years old, writes in the Crimson that even at Harvard they fall somewhat short of a total obliteration of historical and . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s the lede from an article in the Economist inappropriately subtitled “American attitudes to stem-cell therapies are changing fast”: For the past eight years, America’s government has declined to fund new research into one of the world’s most promising medical . . . . Continue Reading »
Recently I’ve spent a lot of time digging through back issues of FT and have been rewarded with gem after gem. Here, for instance, is an excerpt from the May 2001 Public Square : Sydney Smith, who died in 1845, deserves to be better remembered than he is. Not that it would do him any . . . . Continue Reading »
Britain’s latest campaign to reduce the number of teenage pregnancies—through increased sex-ed and access to contraception—has hit a snag : The latest study of pregnancy in Britain has shown that the rate of conception among girls under 18 has risen for the first time in five years. . . . . Continue Reading »
The Final Exit Network is dedicated to assisted suicide. More honestly than some in the euthanasia movement, its members openly acknowledge that the “ultimate civil liberty” should not be limited to the terminally ill.It has long been suspected that some members of the FEN are not . . . . Continue Reading »
The possible becomes permissible; the permissible becomes the imperative. . . . . Continue Reading »
I am back in California sinking with my fellow citizens beneath the waves of red ink, jetlagged and scratchy from a persistent chest cold, but gratified that the speaking trip to Ireland and London was (I think), quite successful. Here are a few photos I took for your (hoped for) enjoyment. Thanks . . . . Continue Reading »
Because pornography’s exploitation of women wasn’t blatant enough already. . . . . Continue Reading »
This time in Britain, where Oxford University neuroscientist Susan Greenfield fears that the overstimulation caused by technologies such as television, video games, and the social-networking website Facebook can “rewire” the brain, “infantilising [it] into the state of small . . . . Continue Reading »
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