I was asked to weigh in on the Schiavo case by an on-line publication called To The Source, which is sent to tens of thousands of pastors around the country. I focused on how Schiavo, like an executed prisoner, is going to die because the state, through the courts, have so decreed. Yet, when new evidence is found, a murderer receives greater access to justice and the benefit of every doubt, unlike this innocent, disabled woman.
Notes on Anosmia
One morning several years ago, as my wife, Wendy, and I were having breakfast together, I had…
Empire of Unreality
Shiva Naipaul (1945–1985) was the author of three novels and two books of mordant dispatches from places…
The Dreadful Christ of Pär Lagerkvist
It’s dangerous to meet a god,” says the disgraced Pythia in Pär Lagerkvist’s The Sibyl. Her observation…