According to our own Peter Lawler , McCain’s increasingly slim prospects depend not on going negative, as the Weekly Standard has suggested, but in making a strong case that he’s the most competent steward of our domestic agenda. He has real substantive advantages on central issues . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been warning here at SHS and in my other writings, that some bioethicists and organ transplant physicians want societal license to kill patients for their organs. Now, thanks to Will Saletan writing in the Washington Post, the MSM is finally noticing. From Saletan’s column:Robert Truog, . . . . Continue Reading »
On the main page of CULTURE 11, Michael Brendan Dougherty has written an incisive if obvious criticism of the excellent TV show MAD MEN: It’s not a nostalgic or even balanced look at the greatness and misery of the white and prosperous urban American early . . . . Continue Reading »
Rita Marker, the head of the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide knows more about the politics and facts of the facilitated death agenda than anyone else on earth. In this “open letter” to Baroness Warnock, who SHS readers will recall recently renewed her call for . . . . Continue Reading »
Why Peter Singer finally conceded that pigs aren’t . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the most radical alterations in the self definition of humankind has just occurred in Ecuador and the world snoozes. But the radical environmental movement sees what is happening and is cheering. From a Global Exchange press release: Today, the people of Ecuador voted to recognize the . . . . Continue Reading »
I hereby declare Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead mandatory reading for all pomocons or those who are considering converting (although Robinson herself does not appear at this time to have faced the inconvenient fact that she is one of us). This book is first of all the fictional Reverend . . . . Continue Reading »
The global pro-life movement has just scored a small, indirect victory. For years the United States Agency for International Aid has supplied some African nations with contraceptives, some of which are distributed by Marie Stopes International, a prominent international abortion provider. Now , . . . . Continue Reading »
Virginian readers of First Things will be interested in the upcoming free lecture by Richard John Neuhaus at Roanoke College: . . . . Continue Reading »
Barbarism, to paraphrase Christopher Dawson, is not a far-distant stage in the evolution of human society, but a perpetual possibility simmering under the surface of civilization. In no country on earth has barbarism erupted with more devastating force than in Somalia, a land of clashing creeds and . . . . Continue Reading »
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