The gall of President Obama: He has played hide the ball on health care rationing, the funding of abortion under the public plan, and pretended that cutting fat and efficiencies can pay for the more than $1 trillion price tag for the the bill. He has claimed to support conscience clauses as he guts . . . . Continue Reading »
My review of Yuval Levin’s excellent and thought-provoking book, Imagining the Future: Science and American Democracy , is up now at First Principles. Yuval’s closing exhortation to conservatives, to write more clearly, probingly, and persuasively about human dignity, is problematic, . . . . Continue Reading »
The UK continues to provide us with a vivid and terrifying education about the dangers of health care rationing. The UK”s central planners have urged that doctors make no efforts to save prematurely born babies under 22 weeks. This don’t treat decree (because that is what . . . . Continue Reading »
So, the WSJ has a major debate feature on the role of religion in society in its Weekend Journal. For the atheists, we have Richard Dawkins. No big surprise there. For the theists we have . . . Alister McGrath? No. Rick Warren? No. Francis Beckwith? No. J.P. . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week Jimmy Carter wrote another breathtakingly silly op-ed titled “ The Elder’s View of the Middle East .” As Elliot Abrams summarized it in an response titled, ” What Carter Missed in the Middle East .” The former President “described a rapacious Israel facing . . . . Continue Reading »
Mark Pickup may very well be the finest man I have ever met. He is good, decent, kind, honest even when it really hurts to be honest, and has an iron-willed integrity. He also has a heart of golden mush.Mark was very caught up, as was I, in the terrible tragedy of the dehydration death . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been very gratified to have been asked repeatedly when my podcast, What It Means to Be Human, will be back. I had to suspend these recordings for awhile because of work load and then a tech meltdown. Whew. But, I am happy to be back streaming and hope to have few . . . . Continue Reading »
Euthanasia deaths are going up in Belgium, now up to about 2% of all deaths in Flanders. From the story:Cases of euthanasia in Belgium’s Flanders region soared to nearly 2 percent of all deaths in 2007 after the country legalized the practice a few years earlier, a medical study has . . . . Continue Reading »
RequiemCambridge, September 2001A payload of people phoning home:their ghost voices linger, caught on tapes,rewound, rewound, as if listening could summon themback into themselves. The last hope’ssupplanted now with clinging to a missedcall, replaying it, imagining words —but what? . . . . Continue Reading »
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