I’m the first to admit I have a bleeding heart. It doesn’t take much for me to feel sorry for someone. That’s why my first feeling when I heard about Jonah Lehrer was pity. He’s 31-years-old, and his career is probably over. Jonah Lehrer was a boy wonder. He’d reached a point that journalists twice [...]
The world has known since January that Bain Capital, the private equity firm founded by Mitt Romney, makes millions off the disposal of aborted fetuses. Pro-life Mitt fans consoled themselves with Bain’s assurance that the company didn’t enter the fetus-trashing biz until after Romney left to run the Olympics. (That Romney profited from the deal [...]
On March 18, The New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote about a young woman who was sex-trafficked using Backpage.com. Alissa was underage when she was held captive, violently abused, and sold for sex. The column gives heart-wrenching details – the last time Alissa escaped a pimp, she was punished with a brutal beat-down – [...]
Dr. Francesca Minerva recently authored an essay in the Journal of Medical Ethics arguing that killing newborn babies should be “as permissible as abortion,” according to The Telegraph. Now, Minerva — a former Oxford ethicist — is getting death threats because of her argument, in which she made the case that newborns and fetuses “were [...]
You already know this: while earning your college degree was informative and pleasant enough, plenty of us head in a different direction. Or maybe the experience wasn’t so awesome or helpful, but we’re sticking, steadfast and stubborn, to what we set out for in the first place. Joshua Miller, the executive director and founder of [...]
