Year: 2022

As 2022 draws to an end, Public Discourse will take a short vacation, with new essays appearing in the new year. In the meantime, here is a Public Discourse Christmas classic that we hope you’ll enjoy. If you appreciate the work that PD does throughout the year, please consider making a donation to our matching campaign. Give $250 or more, and you’ll receive an invitation to a private conference call Columba University Medical School’s Dr. Lydia Dudgale discussing latest controversies on physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia.

Watching the video of Dick Proenneke living Alone In The Wilderness is an escape, allowing us to imagine a life free from the suffocating technological and bureaucratic grips.
The post Leave Me Alone first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.

Few figures are as universally celebrated and beloved as American television host and Presbyterian minister Fred Rogers.
His show “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” an educational program for preschool-age children, is perhaps the crowning achievement of the Public Broadcasting Service.
Despite the show ending only a few decades ago, it’s unlikely that PBS would feel comfortable broadcasting it today — especially episodes about the biological reality of gender.
“Boys are boys from the beginning. Girls are girls right from the start. Everybody’s fancy. Everybody’s fine.