Over on Postmodern Conservative, Helen Rittelmeyer provides a reply to my criticisms of her proposal for a bioethics of love. In her original essay I was in agreement (mostly) with her basic premise—love should be the foundational principle of bioethics—but disagreed with her conclusion. . . . . Continue Reading »
The media push suicide as an acceptable answer to human difficulty. The latest example is a column by St. Louis Post Dispatch columnist Bill McClellan, who extols the suicide of an elderly man as a “gift” because of the discussion about mortality it inspired. Think of the message . . . . Continue Reading »
The media are suicide promoters—in the way some journalists report stories about assisted suicide, and especially among the punditry, so many of whom extol suicide in their columns.Case in point, St. Louis Post Dispatch columnist Bill McClellan, who extols an elderly man’s suicide . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s the question blogger Camassia asks in an intriguing post about why the Baptist-style ecclesiology and voluntarism came to be a dominant form of religion in America: When the Baptists came into being in England in the early 1600s, there were several church-state models around Europe: . . . . Continue Reading »
For the latest PETA antic, check out the most recent entry at A Rat Is A Pig Is A Dog Is A Boy, my blog on animal . . . . Continue Reading »
There has been some discussion here on First Thoughs on the use of the term anti-abortion instead of pro-life in the mainstream media to refer to the view that abortion is murder. Terms are important. However, while Ryan Sayre Patrico and Nicholas Frankovich disagree as to whether we should fight . . . . Continue Reading »
Between the election of Barack Obama and the afternoon of June 10, the yield doubled to 4% from 2% for 10-year Treasury notes, the benchmark for long-term yields in the U.S. economy. Part of the sharp rise in yield was a snapback from levels that reflected fear of a deflationary breakdown of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Investor’s Business Daily has a powerful editorial deconstruction of health care rationing, using the dysfunctional Oregon Medicaid system as its archetype. From the editorial:Advocates of a nationalized single-payer arrangement, typically found on the political left, don’t . . . . Continue Reading »
At first glance, today’s “On the Square” feature by Carson Holloway ( Same-Sex Marriage and the Death of Tradition ) seems to rehash well-trodden ground in the debate over same-sex marriage. But a closer inspection reveals that Holloway is addressing not only the danger to . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m glad that my disability article has been so well - received , but reader after reader has pointed to one unanswered question — actually, two unanswered questions that mean the same thing. (Don’t worry — these questions make sense even if you haven’t read the . . . . Continue Reading »
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