New Oxford Notes: May 2016
The New Double Standard
Media pundits and cultural elites who routinely excoriate the Church with false charges are oddly silent when it comes to flagrant transgressions by Muslims against gays, women, and non-Muslims.
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All Aboard the Suicide Train
In the Netherlands an increasing number of patients now seek assisted dying because of dementia, psychiatric illnesses, and age-related complaints — in other words, non-terminal medical conditions.
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New Oxford Notes: December 2012
Rushing Death... Solitude's Strange Allure
Capital Punishment in Historical Perspective (Not Being yet Another Argument Pro or Con)
The criminal-justice system awkwardly carried into the 20th century vestiges of the remote, far less complex society in and for which it was conceived.
A Nation of Narcissists?
Can a nation, or a civilization, continue to prosper if it is peopled mainly by narcissists? I doubt that this has ever been tried before in history.