Monthly Archives: June 2011

Kevorkian and All That

Jack Kevorkian’s death has generated a flurry of commentary on the issues with which he was associated, and, indeed, on his ‘meaning’. To Wesley Smith, writing on the Corner, he was a “dark mirror on society.” I replied here: Wesley, … Continue reading

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Questioning democralotry

It is an unquestioned truth of the age among “right thinking” people that democracy is the ultimate aim of government. Even authoritarian regimes cloak themselves in the language of democracy, for example the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Those regimes … Continue reading

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