The horror stories out of the UK and Canada are mounting—and serve a warning to this country against a nationalized system. The head of the Canadian Medical Association worries that her country’s single-payer-only system is . . . . Continue Reading »
This week First Things is hosting the first of our new online symposiums. For our inaugural effort we’ve a variety of thinkers to examine and reflect on Benedict XVI’s Caritas in Veritate . Yesterday, Michael Novak illuminated the tensions inherent in the encyclical : I have been trying . . . . Continue Reading »
In 1873, a retired British Army captain became the agent for the 3rd Earl of Erne’s estates in County Mayo. It didn’t take long for the old soldier to find that he had taken the wrong job at the wrong time. Local tenant farmers, enraged at the high rents being charged by their English . . . . Continue Reading »
President Obama is fond of creating a false paradigm about health care reform: It is either the current plans or “nothing.” That isn’t true, of course. Obama and the Democratic leadership made the same mistake that Hillary Clinton did back in 1993: He has allowed the . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve spent the evening — well, what was left of it after dinner and baths and stories and the rosary and people wanting to keep their lights on after lights out and other people wanting to take showers upstairs at the same time that the dishes were being washed downstairs, which is . . . . Continue Reading »
Unlimited license without moral constraint leads here. A woman is pregnant with eleven—no, make that twelve—babies after receiving IVF. From the story:The unnamed mum-to-be - a teacher - is said to be defying medical advice by . . . . Continue Reading »
Remaining fascinated by definitions of postmodernism and conservatism, and always returning to the notions of sentiment and “anti-ideology,” to view all the brutal ugliness and inhumanity of what might legitimately be classified as “modernist” (architecture and literature first . . . . Continue Reading »
As the Republican Majority Leader in the House of Representatives, Tom Delay earned the nickname the “The Hammer” for his enforcement of party discipline in close votes and his reputation for taking political retribution on opponents. Now we’ll get to see Delay’s soft . . . . Continue Reading »
Death may punctuate, but life’s the sentence. . . . . Continue Reading »
The forthcoming issue of the Atlantic includes one of the most sensible and pragmatic articles on the health care debate you’re likely to ever read. After his father died of a hospital-borne infection, business executive David Goldhill began examining the health-care industry. I’m a . . . . Continue Reading »
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