Wesley J. Smith

The Edinburgh Zoo has a new enclosure to house polar bears. But the Animal Liberation Front (AFL) has promised to attack the zoo and shut it down in the same fashion with which liberationists attacked a UK guinea pig farm and coerced its closing. That included threats of violence, repeated . . . . Continue Reading »

This extended piece from the New York Times Magazine is well worth the time it takes to read it. Jeffrey Rosen is not only fair (a real change of pace for the NYT), but he is right about some of the issues likely to be the source of bitter litigation in the future, ranging from the right to . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the people hired to be exhibited in the London Zoo posted a note on Secondhand Smoke. She is not having fun and thinks putting people in zoos is a stupid idea. Yes, that’s a polite way to put it. She can use e-mail so perhaps we could say that she isn’t “just an . . . . Continue Reading »

This case is what the Leslie Burke verdict has wrought. Burke more or less won the right to life-sustaining care for the conscious and communicative in the UK. But the unconscious and uncommunicative were left high and dry by the decision, allowing doctors to decide whether they live or die.The . . . . Continue Reading »

Nigel Cameron is a friend of mine. He is erudite, intelligent, and has a great sense of humor. He is also right in this . . . . Continue Reading »

The entire debate between myself and Professor Adler is available. I thank Prof. Adler for a good and forthright exchange. Whatever side you may take on Gonzales v. Ashcroft, there is much in this extended discussion for . . . . Continue Reading »

The London Zoo homo sapien exhibit, about which I blogged yesterday, is explicitly designed to induce our children to reject human exceptionalism. From this linked story:“Caged and barely clothed, eight men and women monkeyed around for the crowds Friday in an exhibit labeled . . . . Continue Reading »

The London Zoo has opened a new exhibit. It is a herd of homo sapiens. The point of putting people in the zoo is allegedly to “demonstrate the basic nature of man as an animal and examine the impact that Homo sapiens have on the rest of the animal kingdom.”This is what children are now . . . . Continue Reading »

There is great harm being done to human welfare by the the animal rights extremists, as the London Times points . . . . Continue Reading »

The assisted suicide debate . . . . Continue Reading »