Wesley J. Smith

One of the things about our current cultural milieu that  has always puzzled me is the drive to create an absolute fundamental right to procreate—and the concomitant push to permit an absolute and fundamental right to destroy unborn life.  (You know how it goes: Today, the child is . . . . Continue Reading »

Apparently some of the richest people in Silicon Valley have caught the transhumanism bug—Google types, no less. An extensive article in Sunday’s New York Times’ business section tells the story. From. “Merely Human? That’s So Yesterday:”ON a Tuesday evening this . . . . Continue Reading »

Can you imagine?  An Aussie lives near a high cliff from which suicidal people jump. And he tries to stop them!  From the story:In those bleak moments when the lost souls stood atop the cliff, wondering whether to jump, the sound of the wind and the waves was broken by a soft voice. . . . . Continue Reading »

I have noticed lately that my posts are increasingly verbose.  (Well, after all, I am a lawyer, and so short winded is not my strong suit. )  Other blogs that have longer posts often abridge them on the home page, with a link to the rest of the post for those who want to read the . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the primary agenda items in animal rights advocacy is obtaining for animals the right to sue in their own names.  Known as “animal standing,”  allowing animals to sue would empower activists to bring animal industries to their knees, as I describe more . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the biggest—yet little known—agenda items of the animal rights movement is what is known as animal standing, that is, granting animals the right to bring lawsuits (discussed in detail in my book and in this article on NRO).  (Of course, the real litigants would be animal . . . . Continue Reading »

You just knew this one was coming.  How often did the president promise that if you like your current insurance policy, you can keep your insurance policy.  So often it was a mantra.  And it was false according to current Adm. plans.  From the story:Internal administration . . . . Continue Reading »

There is a Q and A avec moi in Salvo, actually a version of an earlier audio interview conducted several months ago. As an abridged product, it misses some of the nuances, but here are the core points of that exchange.  From “You Beast: Animal Rights and Wrongs:”You write in your . . . . Continue Reading »

The CBC asked me to comment on the ethical implications of the recent scientific announcement that they have implanted an artificially created genome into a bacteria.  My main take is that the time to regulate this emerging field is now, not later, while we have time to deliberate and create . . . . Continue Reading »

The not so nice NICE has done it again, refusing to cover an effective life-extending drug called Lapatinib, approved by the FDA since 2007 (meaning it isn’t experimental), that can extend the lives of late stage breast cancer patients.  And in this cruelty, is seen vividly the Obamacare . . . . Continue Reading »