Law
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The Pig-Man Isn’t
There has been much handwringing about the news that scientists injected human stem cells into pig embryos,…
The Flight 216 Selection
Judge Neil Gorsuch is a walking, talking Hollywood writer’s pitch: “I’ve got it! Antonin Scalia meets Jimmy…
Briefly Noted
Bach & God by michael marissen oxford, 288 pages, $35 Michael Marissen, emeritus professor of music at…
Bioethics in 2017
Aside from Donald Trump’s call to “repeal and replace” Obamacare and Hillary Clinton’s promise to repeal the…
My Orange Juice Came from Brazil
A couple of weeks ago when I was having breakfast, I noticed that my “not from concentrate”…
A “Merciless Assault on Human Dignity”
The archbishop of Toronto is given to deprecating himself as “just a simple country cardinal.” In my…
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…
