Wesley J. Smith

I don’t get paid to blog.  But it isn’t free—for my host.First Things supports SHS and a wide range of other blogging types by supplying us gratis with broadband and the IT necessary to keep things running smoothly. I deeply appreciate this support and the wider audience that . . . . Continue Reading »

I reported here a few weeks ago about a new radical thrust in environmentalism that seeks to hyper criminalize resource development as an international crime akin to genocide or crimes against humanity. At the time, I promised a more thorough analysis.  It is now out in the current Weekly . . . . Continue Reading »

Michael Schiavo has threatened to sue the Schindlers because the family  named its non profit organization the “Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation”—he claims he owns the name. And, true to form, an ever compliant media fronted his cause with an unfair attack on the family. . . . . Continue Reading »

Michael Schiavo has threatened to sue Terri Schiavo’s family because they named their non profit after her—the “Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation.”  (MS claims he owns the name. ) And, true to form, an ever compliant media fronted his cause with an unfair attack on the . . . . Continue Reading »

I worry about the devolution of medicine from a healing profession into a lifestyle, on demand, technocratic enabling guild.  We see it all around us. Octomom, for example, wasn’t infertile.  The IVF she wanted had nothing to do with medicine in the sense of helping her overcome a . . . . Continue Reading »

This is what Western Civilization is becoming. From the story : A baby found alive nearly a day after a failed abortion in Italy had been rejected by his mother because he had a cleft lip and palate, according to reports. The 22-week infant was found breathing a day after the operation. He died one . . . . Continue Reading »

This is what Western Civilization is becoming. From the story:A baby found alive nearly a day after a failed abortion in Italy had been rejected by his mother because he had a cleft lip and palate, according to reports. The 22-week infant was found breathing a day after the operation. He died one . . . . Continue Reading »

I gave a speech to the Animal Ag Alliance in Arlington yesterday. It was covered by the Washington Times. From the story:The agriculture industry is under attack from a powerful, popular and well-funded lobby - animal rights groups, which want to see it die completely, said two speakers at the . . . . Continue Reading »

It all gets to be too much: Animals don’t have the same sense of privacy or modesty that we have.  But a university professor—of course!—claims that nature documentaries violate animals’ putative “right to privacy.”  From the story:Dr Brett Mills from . . . . Continue Reading »

Al Gore, the Puritan global warming hysteric, insists that we all reduce our living standards and dismantle prosperity in order to SAVE THE PLANET!!!  But he never practices what he preaches.  He flies on private jets, once took rapid transit into a city but had his luggage brought in by . . . . Continue Reading »