When I wrote “A Death on His Own Terms” last month, I did so knowing that it was going to be controversial, particularly among conservatives. The story dealt with political strategist Hal Malchow, who traveled to Switzerland to submit himself to voluntary euthanasia after he began losing his cognitive abilities to Alzheimer’s disease. (As an […]
For those of you not familiar with Hal Malchow, he’s a long-time Democratic political strategist and author who was an early pioneer of targeted direct-mail political campaigns. His very successful career lasted for many decades until now when he is in his seventies. This week, that career will come to an end because Hal Malchow […]
Like the Greek tragic heroes of Oedipus and Prometheus, Oppenheimer used his almost superhuman intellect and ability to achieve something that led not only to his own suffering, but also to the suffering of others. Americans today would do well to heed the lessons passed down from the Greek tragedians about the reckless and stubborn […]
Photo: Margie Quin, commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services, photographed on June 2, 2023. Photo Credit: John Partipilo By Anita Wadhwani [Tennessee Lookout -CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] – The Tennessee Court of Appeals has set aside a lower court’s decision that has kept records related to a Shelby County child’s death from being released to […]
Even in God’s majesty as bridegroom on the other side of death, beyond the light of the stars, the deep humility also present in Charity presents itself. If we cannot recognize the Good, we cannot recognize Love when we meet Him beyond the liminal, the threshold of death into eternity. Death is a part of […]
My friend John O’Connell was a conservative of the truest stamp, never miseducated, never subject to the whims and fashions of opinion. A man of dignified piety, his principles were strong and unshakable. I have had occasion many times to say that Jack was the best man I knew, and I do not want his […]
The mere fact that we are not happy now is proof that we will be happy in the future, for God does not give us any desire which he himself does not intend to satisfy in his own perfect way. So let us mourn now, but do so with the joy for the gifts given […]
Fr. Ian Boyd was one of the most beautiful representatives of that culture that goes by the name of “conservatism.” His name will forever remain linked to that of G.K. Chesterton, and especially to “The Chesterton Review.” The founder of The Chesterton Review, emblem of a conservatism we miss, passed away at 88. Fr. Ian […]
Stan Mattson was a Christian culture warrior who has now fought his last battle. He has died but he is not dead. He lives not merely in the minds and hearts of those who knew and loved him but in the “heaven-haven of the Reward.” Stan Mattson It is a little more than three years […]
The late Steve Masty’s “The Test of the Magi” is a novel that displays a powerful religious imagination and a profound knowledge of the history and cultures of the ancient world, as well as personal experience with the geography and anthropology of the middle east. The Test of the Magi, by Johannes Bergmann (254 pages, […]
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