Lest anyone think that the nuclear family is some sort of recent, artificial construct, ScienceDaily reports : The earliest evidence of a nuclear family, dating back to the Stone Age, has been uncovered by an international team of researchers, including experts from the University of Bristol. The . . . . Continue Reading »
The case of M.B., the 12-year-old boy whose Orthodox Jewish parents sought to have his life support continued after he was declared dead by neurological criteria, is over. From the story: The boy had already been declared brain dead, but some adherents of Jewish religious law say death occurs only . . . . Continue Reading »
The abandoning ethic of assisted suicide is demonstrated by studies showing depression in many patients requesting hastened death. This point is commented upon in a letter to the editor in the British Medical Journal by Thomas Koch, a Canadian professor at the University of British Columbia. There . . . . Continue Reading »
Liz Carr, a disabled broadcaster for the BBC, has penned a heart-wrenching open letter to Noel Martin, a British man paralyzed after being attacked by neo-Nazis who wants to travel to Switzerland to commit suicide. A few excerpts: As for not being able to touch the world around you — from an . . . . Continue Reading »
There was a column in yesterday’s SF Chronicle that dealt with the mortgage crisis. That issue is way beyond our scope here, but one point made by the writer hit my SHS nerve endings. From the column, “Are You an Idiot to Keep Paying Your Mortgage?”:But what about the moral . . . . Continue Reading »
One of our country’s most precious inheritance from the Puritans was the more or less compulsory cessation of commercial activity on Sunday. But we Hobbesian/Darwinian survivalists increasingly think there’s not time enough to allow the wasting of even a single day. Or . . . . Continue Reading »
From the instructive, if often sobering, weekly newsletter of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy come these two news stories : Proposition 8, California’s newly passed constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union between one man and one woman, is being fiercely challenged . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s what Archbishop Marx of Munich said to the Spiegel last month when he sat down to talk about the financial crisis, the future of capitalism, and Marxism. The whole interview is worth a read, but here are a few passages, roughly translated by yours truly: We have to ask the simple . . . . Continue Reading »
Groupies of FT contributor and physics professor Stephen M. Barr will find a recording of his recent lecture by that name on the website of the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer in New York. . . . . Continue Reading »
A word to the wise: In making the public case for a sound sexual ethics, there are two extremes to avoid. One is the fuzzy-minded nostalgia gently mocked in ” The Village Green Preservation Society ” (” We are the Office Block Persecution Affinity/ God save little shops, china . . . . Continue Reading »
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