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With Terri Schindler-Schiavo’s death now literally yesterday’s news, I suppose much of the dust stirred up over the legal issues of her case will start to settle. Yet I find myself hoping it won’t. Her case drew tremendous attention and stirred a lot of emotion because it involved questions of when life-supporting procedures should be terminated, what is an acceptable quality of life, what legal protections should be extended to someone whose condition has dipped below that “acceptable” level, and where are we as a society on the slippery slope which ultimately leads to genocide. These are not questions that...

Not long after the tragic events of 9/11, The Guardian -- that last fanatical bastion of English left-wing obstinacy and foolishness -- published a unique book review honouring the latest Penguin edition of The Plague, the enduring fictional allegory of human suffering and sacrifice, written by French existentialist novelist Albert Camus. It was particularly surprising that The Guardian, of all publications, would publish what was really a revised introduction to the latest English-language edition of The Plague, since Camus' unique philosophical and political point of view was always so different from that of most of today's Guardian contributors. Like many...