The Illinois Governor has done what the legislature could not pass: He has issued an executive order creating the Illinois Regenerative Medical Institute that will use state money to fund, among other endeavors, research into human cloning. What the legislature could not do, the governor does with the stroke of a pen. So much for democratic processes.
Lift My Chin, Lord
Lift my chin, Lord,Say to me,“You are not whoYou feared to be,Not Hecate, quite,With howling sound,Torch held…
Letters
Two delightful essays in the March issue, by Nikolas Prassas (“Large Language Poetry,” March 2025) and Gary…
Spring Twilight After Penance
Let’s say you’ve just comeFrom confession. Late sunPours through the budding treesThat mark the brown creek washing Itself…