Law
A selection of recent articles on this topic
From Atheism to First Things
At the time I came to First Things in mid-2014, I was just a couple of years…
Suffering and Silence
I hope that Martin Scorcese’s Silence, premiering this week, will accurately capture the genius of Shusako Endo’s…
Chaplains of Death
It’s an appalling document. In a pastoral letter, ten Catholic Bishops of the Canadian Atlantic Episcopal Assembly…
China Rising
I just returned from two weeks touring the People’s Republic of China. The Great Wall, 2,200-year-old Terracotta…
Preserving Limited Government in Difficult Times
Donald Trump’s strong-arming (or bribing) of Carrier into keeping a thousand jobs in the US has scrambled…
A Right to Assisted Suicide for the Institutionalized Mentally Ill
Assisted suicide proponents always promise that facilitated death will be offered solely and strictly to the mentally…
Death Rights
Last year, Canada’s Supreme Court unanimously decided that laws criminalizing assisted suicide are unconstitutional and in violation…
Dirty Hands and Political Despair
John Adams famously wrote, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is…
Euthanizing Children
The death of a terminally ill seventeen-year-old boy made headlines recently, as Belgium’s first case of child…
Where I Was Wrong Part I: The Filibuster
Over at National Review, I wrote that we NeverTrump conservatives should start the reconciliation process with Trump…
Animal Rights Would Ban Pets
“Animal rights” is often conflated “animal welfare.” But they are not the same—not even close. Animal welfare…
The Constitution as a Coward’s Shield and a Barbarian’s Rock
The pseudonymous Trump partisan Decius writes that Donald Trump has mounted the “first serious national-political defense of…
Creeping Infallibility
The Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia, issued by Pope Francis at the close of two recent synods on…
The Conservative Lawyers versus the Never Trumpers
Just a month ago, in a harbinger of things to come, the conservative side lost in the…
“Death Control” and the Bioethics Peril
Thousands of medical ethicists and bioethicists, as they are called, professionally guide the unthinkable on its passage…
