Wesley J. Smith

I have written before—and no doubt will again—that the death culture brooks no dissent. I haven’t gotten my mind totally around why this is yet, but I have developed some theories. I think issues such as assisted suicide are part of a (partially unconscious) but clearly unfolding . . . . Continue Reading »

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Ever wonder why print media is sinking beneath the waves? Here’s an example. The Village Voice has laid off my pal Nat Hentoff, who has churned out thoughtful and even prescient columns there for 50 years. From the story:The troubled Village Voice laid off three employees Tuesday, including . . . . Continue Reading »

The next time you are tempted to scoff at folk with disabilities who worry that they many people think their lives are not worth living, remember this story. Two medical technicians from the UK have been arrested for allegedly deciding that the life of a man with disabilities wasn’t . . . . Continue Reading »

Writing in the latest  First Things  magazine (” Abortion After Obama “), Joseph Bottum worries that federal law may soon require medical schools to provide mandatory abortion training and all hospitals to cooperate with pregnancy terminations. This isn’t . . . . Continue Reading »

It is no secret that the newspaper business is in severe trouble. A big part of the problem is technological: The Internet has destroyed the classified sections, for example, and many younger people no longer read newspapers, causing circulation to decline.But in my view, another huge issue is . . . . Continue Reading »

It is a given that President Obama will dismantle the funding limitations on ESCR imposed by President Bush. Even though Bush’s plan still resulted in about $160 million in human embryonic stem cell NIH funding, “the scientists” complain that it is his fault the field has not . . . . Continue Reading »

Just as during the Kevorkian saga, some have claimed that the “cure” for “suicide tourism”—in which dying and disabled people fly to Switzerland to be made dead—has been legalization of assisted suicide. And just as in Kevorkian’s day, family members and . . . . Continue Reading »

The Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council has picked up on my call to defend human exceptionalism. Here’s the link. I am most . . . . Continue Reading »

I have opined that there are three cultural paradigms that threaten to supplant traditional Judeo-Christian/humanistic values as the foundational value system of society; utilitarianism (which we have addressed often here at SHS), hedonism (which we have rarely addressed here), and radical . . . . Continue Reading »