“Global warming was blamed for 35,000 deaths in Europe’s August 2003 heat wave,” reports George Will in Newsweek today. Never mind that cold causes seven times as many deaths in Europe each year. We must take up the eco-friendly, non-carbon-emitting torch, and fight to end global . . . . Continue Reading »
I make the argument here that an increasing reliance upon Powerpoint among college professors in the humanities reveals much about the state of liberal education and the condition of professional philosophy today. A snippet: The hidden premise beneath the proliferation of PowerPoint in university . . . . Continue Reading »
In addition to being a compelling indictment of the “addiction bureaucracy,” Theodore Dalrymple’s Romancing Opiates is probably the most wryly funny book-length discussion of heroin addiction you’ll read all week. Here’s a characteristic digression: Cold turkey is so . . . . Continue Reading »
In the current issue of First Things we are pleased to have an article by Amy Julia Becker entitled “Babies Perfect and Imperfect,” a reflection on how having a child with Down syndrome has deepened Becker’s understanding of what it means to be human: Early on, I had asked my . . . . Continue Reading »
An article in Our Sunday Visitor, a Catholic publication, warns readers about the dangers of radical environmentalism and animal rights—epitomized by Spain’s pending enactment of the Great Ape Project and Ecuador’s granting rights to “nature” in its new Constitution. . . . . Continue Reading »
Some more observant SHSers may notice that I changed the descriptive blurb of this blog from, “Your 24/7 bioethics seminar,” to “Your 24/7 seminar on bioethics and the importance of being human.” It’s not quite as pithy, but we do deal with issues that extend beyond the . . . . Continue Reading »
Quick takes on the sparks flying off Helen’s latest: 1. Definitely Alex Massie is right as far as it goes when he heaps criticism on this notion that there is a "Red" America and a "Blue" America. True, this is fostered by all the sweet and pretty maps, but it’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Healing, Service, Reverence for the Person, Respect for the Family, Commitment to the Poor: In the medical world today, these principles—asserted and upheld—can’t be taken for granted. Which makes the opening , yesterday, of Divine Mercy Care Pharmacy, noteworthy not just to the . . . . Continue Reading »
I have always said that if you want to see why things seem to be going so wrong in bioethics, just look at the professional literature at the most elite levels, in which a more candid view is presented than may appear in popular media. The bioethics blogs can also be illuminating.Case in point, a . . . . Continue Reading »
It seems that Conor Friedersdorf and I only ever have one fight: he tends to judge things (candidate, ideas, and political parties) strictly on their merits, and I always want to make it more complicated . From his post on Young Turkism in the pundit class: . . . had TS Elliot sent me "The . . . . Continue Reading »
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