Here’s some troubling news from the Wall Street Journal : In a striking shift, Pfizer Inc. will abandon efforts to develop medicines for heart disease, as part of a broad research reshuffling it announced Tuesday. Pfizer will be leaving a field that includes its cholesterol-lowering drug . . . . Continue Reading »
The Washington State Medical Association has come out against legalizing assisted suicide and passing I 1000. From its brochure:This fall Washington voters must decide whether to support or oppose Initiative 1000. It may help to know that the Washington State Medical Association strongly opposes . . . . Continue Reading »
It is my privilege to share workspace with a soon-to-be-distinguished student of history , Ryan Sayre “Prayers” Patrico. Like other advocates of civilization, Ryan is shocked and dismayed by the almost total ignorance of history among young Americans. The only consolation I can offer . . . . Continue Reading »
With Muslim head-scarves banned in French schools, and religion forced out of the public square, Muslim parents have been enrolling their children in Catholic schools. Interesting to see, yet again, how the laîcité that was designed to prevent the abuse of . . . . Continue Reading »
Martin Sheen—known to be a left handed hitter politically—has a radio ad out against the assisted suicide legalization initiative, I-1000. This is important because despite the broad and diverse coalition against legalizing assisted suicide that cuts diagonally across the nation’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Commenter Paulie wants to know. Well, there’s no denying that postmodern theory is intimately intertangled with the "hermeneutic of suspicion." Ricoeur helped us level against Habermasian liberal thinkers the complaint that ideologies could become so clever that what appeared to be . . . . Continue Reading »
P.J. O’Rourke at the Los Angeles Times offers a hilarious yet meaningful reflection on his encounter with cancer and how the experience has given him a healthy appreciation of death: I looked death in the face. All right, I didn’t. I glimpsed him in a crowd. I’ve been diagnosed . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s something I say in "Natural Law, Our Constitution, and Our Democracy,’ MODERN AMERICA AND THE LEGACY OF THE FOUNDING (ed. Pestritto and West, 2007): . . . in Locke’s ‘Of Property, the frequent references to God disppear once money is invented—with . . . . Continue Reading »
Arnold Schwarzenegger, who alas is my governor, was elected to produce fiscal responsibility in California. Well, that didn’t work out: This year alone, we are about $17 billion in the hole and counting.That aside, Schwarzenneger first violated his fiscal responsibility raison d’ etre . . . . Continue Reading »
Contra Ivan, Nick Troester levels a miniature defense of Locke. There is definitely an ‘anti-natural law’ aspect of Locke which actually remains fairly powerfully Aristotelian. If Aristotle was right that the political relationship was fundamentally different in kind from other sorts of . . . . Continue Reading »
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