I am a man with deep connections to the political left, for example, writing four books with Ralph Nader. But those Movement (not Nader) ties frayed and then snapped, first due to the Left’s embrace (before the disability rights movement engaged the issue) of assisted suicide, reinforced . . . . Continue Reading »
The NHS is collapsing from top to bottom. Now, we learn that its medical personnel have insufficient training in end of life care. From the story: Many terminally ill patients who want to die at home are being needlessly admitted to hospital, a public spending watchdog said on Wednesday. It said the . . . . Continue Reading »
Dreading the Thanksgiving-dinner arguments on religion and politics? Resistance is futile. Just accept the inevitable and start them yourself. Slate provides some ideas here for dinner-table disagreements on politics. As for religion, First Things has dished up some ideas sure to spark lively . . . . Continue Reading »
A maximalist, Mr. Luhrmann doesn’t simply want to rouse your laughter and tears: he wants to rouse you out of a sensory-overloaded stupor with jolts of passion and fabulous visions. That may make him sound a wee bit Brechtian, but he’s really just an old-fashioned movie man, the kind . . . . Continue Reading »
A study has predicted that HIV could be wiped out within a decade. From the story:The virus that causes AIDS could theoretically be eliminated in a decade if all people living in countries with high infection rates are regularly tested and treated, according to a new mathematical model. It is an . . . . Continue Reading »
This is my first post as a member of the Postmodern Conservative team. By way of debut, I want to raise an issue we’ve alluded to but haven’t taken on directly. That’s the status of intellectuals, especially academics, in American conservatism. As Ivan points out , many critics . . . . Continue Reading »
The assistant editors of First Things have back-to-back book reviews in Touchstone . Last month I wrote on three books describing the hook-up culture on college campuses. The article’s now available online , and here’s a sample: One student she interviewed talks about a girl who calls . . . . Continue Reading »
After reading my post on Show of Hands, Paul Allen, who teaches theology at Concordia University in Montreal, wrote and passed along a link to a Quebec group that sings an edgy protest song — a protest against cultural suicide, that is. Check it out. . . . . Continue Reading »
Thanksgiving is a holiday devoted to the virtue of gratitude which, one could argue, finds less than hospitable ground in the modern world. The Lockean position on nature, that it furnishes only worthless materials that gain value through an imposition of labor, could not be more . . . . Continue Reading »
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