“Global warming was blamed for 35,000 deaths in Europe’s August 2003 heat wave,” reports George Will in Newsweek today. Never mind that cold causes seven times as many deaths in Europe each year. We must take up the eco-friendly, non-carbon-emitting torch, and fight to end global . . . . Continue Reading »
In addition to being a compelling indictment of the “addiction bureaucracy,” Theodore Dalrymple’s Romancing Opiates is probably the most wryly funny book-length discussion of heroin addiction you’ll read all week. Here’s a characteristic digression: Cold turkey is so . . . . Continue Reading »
In the current issue of First Things we are pleased to have an article by Amy Julia Becker entitled “Babies Perfect and Imperfect,” a reflection on how having a child with Down syndrome has deepened Becker’s understanding of what it means to be human: Early on, I had asked my . . . . Continue Reading »
An article in Our Sunday Visitor, a Catholic publication, warns readers about the dangers of radical environmentalism and animal rights—epitomized by Spain’s pending enactment of the Great Ape Project and Ecuador’s granting rights to “nature” in its new Constitution. . . . . Continue Reading »
Some more observant SHSers may notice that I changed the descriptive blurb of this blog from, “Your 24/7 bioethics seminar,” to “Your 24/7 seminar on bioethics and the importance of being human.” It’s not quite as pithy, but we do deal with issues that extend beyond the . . . . Continue Reading »
Healing, Service, Reverence for the Person, Respect for the Family, Commitment to the Poor: In the medical world today, these principles—asserted and upheld—can’t be taken for granted. Which makes the opening , yesterday, of Divine Mercy Care Pharmacy, noteworthy not just to the . . . . Continue Reading »
I have always said that if you want to see why things seem to be going so wrong in bioethics, just look at the professional literature at the most elite levels, in which a more candid view is presented than may appear in popular media. The bioethics blogs can also be illuminating.Case in point, a . . . . Continue Reading »
George Weigel has penned a sharp response to Cafardi, Kaveny, and Kmiec’s response to his original Newsweek column . The whole thing is worth reading, so it’s hard to select just a couple sample paragraphs. But here’s the opening: I take it as an iron law of controversy that when . . . . Continue Reading »
Al Martinez, an LA Times columnist (the newspaper that declared “nature rights” in Ecuador to be “intriguing), has caught up with the plants rights movement. In “Getting an Earful From Your Veggies,” he writes: It is not enough to worry about the economy, the political . . . . Continue Reading »
If you’re in the New York area on November 13, frequent FT contributor Stephen Barr will deliver the St. Albert’s Day Lecture at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer (Lexington and 66th) at 7:00 PM. The lecture is free and open to the public and is entitled Modern Physics and Ancient Faith. . . . . Continue Reading »
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