A few days ago former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, was having a discussion with her five-year-old grandson about…
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In 2003 my beautiful daughter Chloe was born with a diagnosis of Down syndrome, and I must admit my family…
During a conversation with my 23-year-old son, he told me that a lot of his friends like our new pope.…
With its announcement of possible reforms, China has implicitly admitted its forty year-old one child per-family policy has been a…
Far too frequently we look around our lives and find so much going so wrong. Sometimes we know what we…
In a profound analysis of the inherent problems with “advance directives” and other such statements of how one wishes to…
I realized a while ago that debates are pointless. All they do is try to prove the other person wrong…
Last week marked 50 years since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his seminal “I Have a Dream” speech from…
There’s a dangerous tendency in America today to view disabilities of various kinds as insuperable barriers to productive and loving…
Francoise Baylis, a professor in Bioethics and Philosophy in Canada, has an important piece out on the Quebec law that…