Good for Leon Kass and well deserved! The country’s most eloquent and articulate defender of intrinsic human dignity will be giving the NEH Jefferson Lecture, the Endowment’s most prestigious honor. From the press release: Dr. Leon R. Kass, a widely published author, award-winning . . . . Continue Reading »
I have crossed pens occasionally with Reason writer Ronald Baily and debated him (and others) at CUNY about transhumanism and other brave new world agendas. Well, Baily just [update, actually in 2006] learned about a Texas futile care case that, he writes, led to scorched earth commentary from the . . . . Continue Reading »
The media love social outlaws, particularly those involved with assisted suicide, and rarely challenge them in interviews or journalistic profiles—a phenomenon I have discussed here at SHS before. That could explain why Ted Goodwin, the former head of Final Exit Network and vice president of . . . . Continue Reading »
Leon Kass, the National Endowment for Humanities announced today , will be receiving the U.S. government’s most prestigious honor for intellectual achievement in the humanities. This May, Kass will be delivering NEH’s thirty-eighth annual Jefferson Lecture, entitled: . . . . Continue Reading »
When I read Peter C. Glover’s article about the attack on Christian belief in the UK and the parallel decline in morality, it brought me back to a very dispiriting speaking trip I took there last month. When I arrived in London, the country was all atwitter over a 13-year-old boy named Alfie . . . . Continue Reading »
I doubt that First Things readers spend a lot of time over at the website for the International Humanist and Ethical Union . But, maybe just this once, it might be worth a look. The IHEU has joined forces with Freedom House , UN Watch , and Becket Fund for Religious Liberty in urging all states to . . . . Continue Reading »
Harvard law school professor, former ambassador to the Vatican, and First Things board member Mary Ann Glendon will receive the Laetare Medal at Notre Dame this spring: Mary Ann Glendon, former U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, will receive the University of Notre Dame’s 2009 Laetare Medal. . . . . Continue Reading »
Roger Scruton on Britain’s bus-advertising atheists, and how they don’t measure up to the humanists of his parent’s generation: The British Humanist Association is currently running a campaign against religious faith. It has bought advertising space on our city buses, which now . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been saying that science is becoming a religion (scientism), but this is ridiculous. A climate change parishioner has been found to have been wrongfully fired in the UK over his “philosophical belief” in global warming. From a column by the Telegraph’s ever politically . . . . Continue Reading »
I remember seeing the movie Soylent Green in the early 70s. One of the shocks of the film has E.G. Robinson’s character leaving a note to Charlton Heston that he was “going home,” which turned out to be death via a euthanasia clinic. As I recall, the idea that society would become . . . . Continue Reading »
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