Wesley J. Smith

I read the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy between Christmas and New Year’s Day, 1966, when I was a senior in high school.  My best friend Malcolm gave me the books for Christmas.  When the “black riders” first appeared, I was utterly transported to a different . . . . Continue Reading »

Judge Vinson ruled a month ago that Obamacare is unconstitutional.  He refused to issue an injunction at the time, presuming naively that the administration would respect his opinion and act accordingly. But as the judge has learned, this  is not an administration that respects the rule of . . . . Continue Reading »

Over at Secondhand Smoke , I posted a small comment about a controversy in the UK involving a restaurant that is going to serve ice cream made from human milk.  I worried that this was a telling incident about the hedonistic and vulgar times in which we live, writing: Hedonism is not just . . . . Continue Reading »

The medical marijuana movement, to a large degree, was used by activists—whose real goal was recreational license—as the proverbial foot in the door.  They hid behind sick people, used them, really, and began calling cannabis “medicine.”  But then they lit up for . . . . Continue Reading »

I did an hour radio interview today on the Regina Brett Show, WKSU in Ohio, about so-called death with dignity.  A representative of the assisted suicide advocacy group Final Exit Network also appeared, along with two hospice professionals, also appeared on the program.  If you are . . . . Continue Reading »

A baby was born in France because his parents wanted to use his umbilical cord stem cells to treat the genetic disease of their existing children.  From the story:France’s first so-called “saviour sibling” was born in a hospital in the Parisian suburb of Clamart in late . . . . Continue Reading »

I have written here from time to time of what I call the coup de culture, which I define as an ongoing drive that seeks to shift society away from a value system based on Judeo/Christian moral philosophy—different from faith—based on human exceptionalism and a balance of duties and . . . . Continue Reading »

HSUS doesn’t generally pitch animal rights ideology in public.  It merely goes about its business of methodically seeking to dismantle animal using industries, what I have called a process of chewing from the outside in.  It is an effort that they know will take decades.But make no . . . . Continue Reading »

The continuing legal and political revolt against Obamacare is remarkable.  I am particularly struck by the refusal by more than half the states to cooperate with the law and/or seek to invalidate it in court.  I don’t recall a federal law attacked by the states in such a concerted . . . . Continue Reading »

The conservative UK columnist Melanie Phillips, who I don’t think is pro life, (not sure about that), makes some provocative points about abortion that are worth pondering.  She is appalled that UK doctors have been instructed to tell pregnant women contemplating termination that abortion . . . . Continue Reading »