Philip Nitschke is a hero of the assisted suicide movement and a strident advocate for unlimited suicide on demand. (All of you culture of death fans out there, don’t deny it: He’s always a star attraction at euthanasia conventions.) Toward that end, he spends his days creating suicide . . . . Continue Reading »
Back home in New York, after a month out in the Black Hills of South Dakota, this oldie but goodie came to mind: Paul Goodman, “The Lordly Hudson” “Driver, what stream is it?” I asked, well knowing it was our lordly Hudson hardly flowing. “It is our lordly Hudson . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the most courageous and dedicated legislators I have ever met is Mary Pilcher Cook of Kansas. Mary came to my attention several years ago, when as a freshman in the Kansas House, she asked me out to testify in favor of a proposed cloning ban. (Through a lot of grit and persuasion, she got it . . . . Continue Reading »
“I think of this as similar to my yoga class, only much, much more satisfying,” business executive Gary Goldstein told the New York Times . He’s one of a number of Jewish New Yorkers considered to be “very significant people” who enjoys periodic visits from a rabbi . . . . Continue Reading »
The guts of the California back door assisted suicide bill, AB 2747, have been stripped from the bill, but it still has objectionable elements. The largest Latino civil rights organization has noticed and—true to its anti-euthanasia/assisted suicide values—has formally come out in . . . . Continue Reading »
In the spirit of today’s feast, some words from Benedict XVI, in an Angelus address on March 13th, 2006: When one has the grace to sense a strong experience of God, it is as though seeing something similar to what the disciples experienced during the Transfiguration: For a moment they . . . . Continue Reading »
I so often write about the deadly serious side of the animal rights movement—the threats to people—that I too often forget to point out some of the more jejune stunts that some advocates pull. Case in point: One animal rights activist wants to change the name of Homo sapiens. From his . . . . Continue Reading »
With a freshly printed diploma hanging on the wall, I find myself at a new job in a new city. Everything is original, unknown, exciting. But as much as these novel sights and sounds draw my mind to the present and to the future, I am also reminded of the past. A new chapter begins as another ends, . . . . Continue Reading »
In the most recent issue of FT, Mary Eberstadt candidly traces the cultural consequences of the birth-control mentality, foreseen and forewarned by Paul VI. Writing for the Catholic News Agency, James Francis Cardinal Stafford illuminates a different dimension of the forty-year-old story: the . . . . Continue Reading »
Earlier this week I reflected on the Class Day speech that Solzhenitsyn gave at Harvard in 1978. Over at Christianity Today , Chuck Colson offers some reflections of his own, namely comparing Solzhenitsyn to the prophet Jeremiah. Here’s a sample: As it happened, this summer I was reading a . . . . Continue Reading »
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