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It may be some months before Sampedro and Jorge Arroyo, his pro bono lawyer, learn whether Strasbourg will hear their plea, the first such to be put to the commission. Says Sampedro: ``Death is a taboo in our society. But for a psychologically mature person, voluntary death, when it is...
Still, special interests often do traffic in facts. Their stock in trade is sounding alarms about legislative threats to people's interests, and often they can do that honestly. This, in a sense, is more disturbing than the cases of dishonesty or demagoguery. It means that the corruption of the...
The first Thanksgiving Proclamation, issued by President Washington, asserts that "it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God." The U.S., however, had special reasons to be thankful: "for the signal and manifold mercies . . . in the course and conclusion of the late war"; "for the...
We were pleased to see that the debate at the IOP represented a significant improvement over the initial set of knee-jerk responses to the book. The discourse that evening seemed to constitute a victory of rational discourse over emotionally-charged dismissals.
But the reality is that we live in a society that continues to be stratified by race and that is increasingly stratified by cognitive ability. In this society, these topics, although controversial, are just too important to be ignored. Instead they must be discussed, in a level-headed, rational and...