In my latest National Post column I say the debate on niqabs ultimately hinges on what human beings are, that they should have rights... or not.
In my latest National Post column I say you don't get the poor nice things, including trendy ones like organic food, by price controls that crush entrepreneurs.
“Now, observant Jews and Muslims have strict laws governing their diets, but Christians generally do not. Yet here we were, discovering a hidden connection between fidelity to our religion’s demands and the kind of food we ate. As we came to see in time, the separation between our political and moral convictions and the lifestyle choices we made was by and large an illusion. Just as ideas have consequences, so do actions.”
Rod Dreher Crunchy Cons (on discovering that a healthier diet made Catholic family planning work better by making his wife's cycle more normal)
In my latest National Post column I ponder the upside-down modern world in which we seek an artificial sense of meaning to help us stay unconscious.
"When I was 17, I read a quote somewhere that went something like: 'If you live each day as if it were your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.' It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And when the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something."
Steve Jobs, June 12, 2005 commencement address at Stanford University, reprinted in National Post June 30, 2005
“One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing.”
C.S. Lewis God in the Dock
In my latest National Post column, I point to a Page One story in Monday's paper about children with three genetic parents to underline my warning, in the print edition that same day, that scenarios we thought we might wrestle with ethically in the future are here now. Yet we seem unready to wrestle, even unable to.