The Inalienable Gift of Human Dignity

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 ...
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Masters of Misperception

  “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.” —Abraham Lincoln, 1858 I first read this quotation from Abraham Lincoln many years ago, and was...
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Against Usefulness

  Some things are good because they are useful in relation to something else, but other things are good simply in themselves. A friend of mine makes this point about children. You don’t have to give a reason for having children. Children—like all people—are ends and not...
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