Culture of Death

A selection of recent articles on this topic

The Question of Suicide

Mark Bauerlein

In the ​latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Martin Lockerd joins…

A Turning Point in Germany’s Abortion Debate

Andreas Lombard

The abortion debate in Germany has reached a critical juncture. On July 11, the last day before…

The Fight to Stop Euthanasia for Mental Illness

Jonathon Van Maren

In 2010, twenty-one-year-old Andrew Lawton attempted suicide by swallowing a bottle’s worth of pills in a public…

The Right to Be Killed

Matthew Burdette

In the days surrounding the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., leaders of the civil rights movement…

Make Abortion Great Again?

Kari Jenson Gold

On July Fourth weekend, a photograph made the rounds on social media. Cynthia Nixon, the actress and…

Planned Parenthood Defunded—For Now

Patrick T. Brown

In the three years that followed Dobbs, the pro-life movement may have sometimes felt like it was…

Touching the Assisted Suicide Void

Dan Hitchens

Eloquent, determined, heedless of personal risk, the British journalist Derek Humphry was a born campaigner. In 1975…

No Argument Against Death

Wesley J. Smith

Once a society accepts the noxious notion that killing is an acceptable answer to human suffering, the…

What Euthanasia Enthusiasts Really Want

Wesley J. Smith

Assisted-suicide advocacy is wrapped in euphemisms and false assurances. We are often told that medicalized killing will…

Euthanasia is a Cultural Addiction

Wesley J. Smith

The Netherlands opened the doors to euthanasia way back in 1973. Since then, it has fallen off…