We dehydrate profound cognitively disabled people to death in the USA—a death that comes slowly over about a two week period, often resultin in tissue cracking and even bleeding. We dress it up in nice clothes by claiming we are merely withdrawing unwanted medical treatment. But . . . . Continue Reading »
An addition to yesterday’s item on Michael O’Brien’s reaction to the Harry Potter stories: an alternative, and I think wiser, analysis of how the Christian ought to approach the stories by my friend Steven Hutchens: The Helpful Discovery of Dirt in Potter’s Field and . . . . Continue Reading »
The World Health Association has warned media not to positively depict suicides, or even, air actual self killings, quote suicide notes, etc. because it could lead to copy cat deaths and/or create a suicide positive atmosphere. And yet, we see the BBC, 60 Minutes, and other programs and networks . . . . Continue Reading »
Samuel Gregg has a really great piece on The Public Discourse this morning, deconstructing my qualified defense of Locke here on First Thoughts. ( See also ) This is serious stuff and I’ll be composing a full-dress reply to run over on PD. In the meantime, let me thank Gregg for investing the . . . . Continue Reading »
Today in our first feature article, Peter Leithart addresses his fellow evangelicals on Torah and social justice: Until recently, few evangelicals had much to say about “social justice.” Leftish evangelicals like Ron Sider, Jim Wallis, and Tony Campolo, along with Evangelicals for Social . . . . Continue Reading »
Leroy Huizenga, who wrote one of yesterday’s “On the Square” articles , sends the link to an interview on teaching, media ecology, and related matters with a former colleague, Wheaton’s Read Suchardt . Among the questions and answers: What makes a good teacher today? How do . . . . Continue Reading »
Nation’s Climatologists Exhibiting Strange Behavior (Season 1: Ep 5 on . . . . Continue Reading »
UK rock star and animal rights believer, Morrisey, has claimed that the slaughter in Oslo is nothing compared to McDonald’s. From the Daily Mail story:Morrissey has sparked a storm of protest with an outrageous claim that fast food chains are guilty of murder on a par with mass killer Anders . . . . Continue Reading »
George Grant and stuff—another report from the ISI honors front . . . . . Continue Reading »
As Rusty Reno recently observed in these pages, the poorest have been hit the hardest by the rise of out-of-wedlock birth, cohabitation, divorce, and remarriage. But Harold James , an economic historian at Princeton University and senior fellow of the Witherspoon Institute, notes in his . . . . Continue Reading »
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