Monthly Archives: July 2006

Much of the energy for abortion comes from the simple truth that whatever else is true, the fetus cannot really be a person just like you and I are.*  For no one thinks that that if we are forced to … Continue reading →

In the matter of personal ties, there is nothing on the face of this earth that takes the place of experiences forged in the crucible of time.  A defining feature of modernity has come to be that we want what … Continue reading →

We have all heard the saying that the road to hell is paved with good intention. I received an email asking for my thoughts regarding how not to commit adultery.  So I offer them.  Insofar as I have any advice … Continue reading →

At its best, compassion is a most majestic gesture from one soul to another.  Misplaced compassion, by contrast, is the handmaiden of evil.  At its best, compassion looks beyond one’s own needs to the needs of another.  Misplaced compassion, on … Continue reading →

Below is the text of the essay that I wrote on Wednesday, 1 February 2006.  In view of the present circumstances in the Middle East, I print it here again, word-for-word. In the early 90s, hope was in abundance.  The Berlin Wall fell … Continue reading →

All you need is love !  This sentence is not just the title of one the songs sung by perhaps the most famous group in the history of popular music, namely the Beatles, it also captures the sentiment that many have … Continue reading →

I take it to be an incontrovertible truth that nothing is like rape.* Thus, I take it to follow from this that suggesting that one has been violated in a way analogous to rape when all that happened is that … Continue reading →