In the mail today came an extra-large tee-shirt from Wheaton College—more proof that the people out there on the plains west of Chicago are among the nicest people in the world. I visited the campus this week, but in the midst of the lecture I had to give and the television panel and the . . . . Continue Reading »
Many might wonder how musicians and scholars can take an obscure medieval manuscript and turn it into a living performance. An interview on WNYC with Benjamin Bagby, co-founder of the ensemble Sequentia , provides insight into this process. The interview also contains clips of Sequentia’s . . . . Continue Reading »
I write often here about animal rights, most often to decry the violence in the movement. But we shouldn’t lose sight of the perfectly legal methods liberationists also apply to end the domestic use of all animals.One of the most effective, is to focus attention on a few discreet alleged . . . . Continue Reading »
The Medical Conventional Wisdom bites the dust . . . . Continue Reading »
I was happy last November to report that we were up to 20,000 visitors a month here as SHS. Well, since then, thanks to you all, we’ve passed the 25,000 mark. I am most grateful.The issues we discuss here are often overlooked or given short shrift in the mainstream media. That’s the . . . . Continue Reading »
The media like to portray opponents of assisted suicide as almost all conservative, religious, and pro life on abortion. That has never been true. Medical professional organizations—which are secular and support abortion rights—have always opposed legalization. Disability rights . . . . Continue Reading »
I have written about Haleigh Poutre nationally and several times here at SHS (here, here, here as examples), but this bears repetition until it finally sinks in. Scenario: Child badly beaten. Within a week or so Haleigh’s doctors write her off as in a persistent vegetative state. She will . . . . Continue Reading »
I got an email Monday from a philosophy-professor friend asking what I thought of the new “theory of everything” (“TOE”) developed by one Garrett Lisi, who apparently is being talked up on the Internet and in some newspapers as a “new Einstein”. Lisi does not . . . . Continue Reading »
If anyone thought that the international death with dignity crowd would allow Washington voters to decide for themselves whether to legalize assisted suicide, they were living in a fantasy world. The campaign was barely born last November and the Oregon Death with Dignity Political Action Committee . . . . Continue Reading »
Today for students at the Roxbury Latin School, where I spent the last three years of high school, is Exelauno Day. Exelauno is a recurring Greek verb from Xenophon’s Anabasis meaning “to march forth.” And so, every March 4th, or a day close to it, is Exelauno Day. This morning, the . . . . Continue Reading »
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