Wesley J. Smith

Media bias has many faces. Sometimes it is overt, such as presenting editorial comment masked as factual reportage. Or, it can be very subtle, for example, by a reporter intentionally calling on a widely disliked or unhinged personality to comment on the side of a public controversy with which the . . . . Continue Reading »

China has admitted for the first time that it sells organs harvested from executed prisoners. Now, it intends to regulate the market. (A liver goes for about $40,000.) Once again, human life is being commodified. “We want to push for regulations on organ transplants to standardise the . . . . Continue Reading »

This is inexcusable. The Senate is poised to pass a bill (S 1317) that would bring the wonders of umbilical cord blood stem cells to sick and disabled people throughout the country by addressing the current problem of lack of supply. The bill passed the House by 431-1! Yet, anonymous Democrats in . . . . Continue Reading »

More than a year ago, the construction of a new research laboratory at Oxford University was halted when threats of violence scared off the construction company building the facility. (This is an example of tertiary targeting.) That led to a 16 month delay in building the facility, and a concomitant . . . . Continue Reading »

This wonderful column by Alicia Colon of the New York Sun is a wonderful tribute to my friend Nat Hentoff. He was honored in October by the Human Life Foundation, and I was humbled to be asked to introduce him. A few of my remarks are mentioned in this piece, but the focus should be on Nat.Here is . . . . Continue Reading »

The Nation is one of our country’s most “progressive” political magazines, and, I believe, its oldest. This article published on-line explains why many on the political Left oppose human cloning, focusing on the very real potential—bordering on likelihood—that women . . . . Continue Reading »

This news story claims that the validity of Woo-Suk Hwang’s human cloning research itself is under investigation, not just his ethics regarding egg procurement. I have no idea whether any of this is true. But almost everywhere we look at the cloning agenda, whether Proposition 71’s false . . . . Continue Reading »

John Brown”Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights by David S. Reynolds Knopf, 592 pages, $35 The violent abolitionist John Brown, whose assault on the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry in 1859 helped spark the Civil War, has been called . . . . Continue Reading »

I will admit I am surprised by this development. Attempts to dismiss the lawsuits against Proposition 71 were denied by the trial judge, paving the way for a formal trial on the issues. An attempt by opponents to win without a trial was also denied. This means that the judge did not find, as a . . . . Continue Reading »

As I reported recently, the notorious Phillip Nitschke is leaving Australia, hoping to set up suicide-promoting in New Zealand. But this story indicates he might have some trouble. Here’s hoping . . . . Continue Reading »