Later today, President Obama is expected to nominate U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan to serve as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Surprisingly, the initial opposition is coming from the left rather than from the right. Glenn Greenwald, a former constitutional and . . . . Continue Reading »
The New York Times Magazine has a long and interesting article today about the moral life of babies. The story’s main thesis, after establishing evidence for a rudimentary infant morality—such as babies preferring “good guy” puppets, I can’t do the evidence . . . . Continue Reading »
Australian Anglicans have made a doctrinal pronouncement to the effect that having children is tantamount to breaking the eighth commandment (or the seventh, if you are Catholic or Lutheran): Anglicans argue for fewer kids. According to this report in The Sydney Morning Herald,The Anglican Church . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . that Apple’s big breakthrough into the field of optometry will come with the introduction of the revolutionary new . . . . Continue Reading »
Ralph presents his case against Rawls below. Although I agree with much of it, I think he goes too far. Here are a few rather disordered suggestions intended less to vindicate Rawls than to complicate the picture: 1. We need to distinguish between Rawls an sich (as it were) and what Ralph describes . . . . Continue Reading »
My first published piece arguing against assisted suicide appeared in Newsweek’s “My Turn” feature way back in 1993. Among other points, I warned that assisted suicide would one day be tied to organ transplantation “as a plum to society.” This has been advocated . . . . Continue Reading »
I found the article about the Belgian euthanasia coupled with organ harvesting referenced in my critique yesterday of a bioethics journal article urging that very approach. The woman in question was not terminally ill, but in a “locked-in” state, that is, fully conscious and . . . . Continue Reading »
This isn’t the first time that coupling assisted suicide/euthanasia has been suggested as a potential concept, but it may be the first time it has been actively advocated. Oxford bioethicists Julian Savulescu—for whom virtually anything goes—writing with Dominic Wilkinson . . . . Continue Reading »
Congratulations to Princeton legal philosopher and constitutional scholar Robert George, a member of the board of First Things , on being awarded the Honorific Medal for the Defense of Human Rights of the Republic of Poland , which recognizes outstanding achievement in the field of human rights. . . . . Continue Reading »
Earlier this week in a post on fundraising—by the way, have you made a donation and taken advantage of the half-price print subscription rate ?—a reader asked: For its readers, does FT consider them “family,” part of a greater FT community? That’s an excellent question. I . . . . Continue Reading »
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