Author: Wesley J. Smith
New Jersey’s Suicide Confusion
With COVID-19, New Jersey officials are worried about a spike in suicide caused by the shutdown.
The Bioethicist Pandemic
The increasing outsourcing of health-care policy to medical bureaucrats during the COVID-19 crisis illustrates a dangerous temptation.
Time to Make Fossil Fuel Industries “Pay”?
Authoritarian central planning never works and it wouldn’t “save the planet.” It would just make us all less prosperous and free.
Push to Replace Earth Day with “Nature Rights”
The activists are right about one thing. Rights of nature would be far more effective in impeding development and extracting wealth from the land than the current system.
Dutch Supreme Court Approves Euthanasia for Dementia
The Reuters story leaves out some details. The doctor had drugged the woman before starting to euthanize her, and instructed the family to hold the struggling patient down.