The International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the ongoing debates around the world to legalize mercy killing. I am honored to be an attorney and consultant for the organization. Indeed, Rita Marker and Kathy Hamlon of the Task Force are responsible for my getting involved in these issues.
The Task Force has analyzed California’s bill. Here is the result.
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…