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Computer scientist Ray Kurzweil’s 2005 book The Singularity Is Near was a landmark in technological thought. In that book, Kurzweil summed up the progress of computer and other forms of technology in order to formulate a vision for the future of human beings in an increasingly... Read More →

  Planned Parenthood, an organization celebrated among the pro-abortion Left for “championing women’s rights,” is imploding its own narrative. Nationwide, clinics are sinking in lawsuits — and occasionally sewage. Even the New York Times admits as much. In a recent exposé on... Read More →

  The euphoria with which pro-life citizens greeted the 2022 Dobbs decision, in which the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, has faded in the two years since then. As Monica Klem points out in a recent article on National Review’s website, although several state... Read More →

  The mid-to-late fifties were a good time to grow up in Garden City, Kansas—a town of 10,000. My mother never lacked love, energy, dreams, and the most encouraging words. My father modeled a work ethic, held us accountable, and shared his wisdom, including how to be... Read More →

I have indeed merely assumed that abortion is morally wrong, and have gone from there. But I’ve done this intentionally: as seen above in Section 2, it is commonplace— though not universal—for authors to claim that abortion restrictions are bad for women, and in particular for... Read More →

  In May of 2024, a Pennsylvania nurse who had been charged with 22 counts of mistreatment of her patients was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Former registered nurse Heather Pressdee was sentenced after having pled guilty to three counts of... Read More →

  Ah gits weary An’ sick of tryin’; Ah’m tired of livin’ An skeered of dyin’, —“Ol’ Man River,” from Show Boat, 1927 And aren’t we all, some days, just like Joe and his dockside gang, in that wondrous classic bequeathed us by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II: worn out,... Read More →

Fall of 2024 witnessed a variety of news accounts on the topic of assisted suicide. On Nov. 11, The New Atlantis broke an exclusive story about Canada’s increasingly messy Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) practice. Using leaked documents, Alexander Raikin reported ... Read More →

At our 50th anniversary dinner last fall, co-host Jack Fowler rolled his eyes at the notion of “depressed” Americans who, unhappy with the election results, wanted to move to Canada: “They kill depressed people in Canada,” he quipped. That might come as a surprise to Hollywood... Read More →

  It was the seventies. Susan and I walked past it every Sunday on our way to and from church. It was a lovely little house, single-story, low adobe wall lined with flowers around the yard, a walk to the door. One Sunday, Susan told me: “They do abortions there.” We were... Read More →