Obituaries

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Burying Thatcher: why celebrating death is still wrong

Patrick Stokes | 17 April 2013 |

tags: death, ethics, Margaret Thatcher, obituaries

Our dealings with the dead are just as ethically governed as our dealings with the living.

A conviction politician

David Alton | 09 April 2013 |

tags: Margaret Thatcher, obituaries, UK

A political opponent pays tribute to Margaret Thatcher's character while questioning her social policies.

A sense of purpose

Peter Smith | 09 April 2013 |

tags: Margaret Thatcher, obituaries, UK

Mrs Thatcher’s steely resolve to improve Britain is sorely needed today, but tempered by compassion for the post-industrial working class.

She served her country well

Joanna Bogle | 09 April 2013 |

tags: Margaret Thatcher, obituaries, UK

Courage, kindness and conviction were the hallmarks of the Margaret Thatcher I knew.

Bracingly liberal views

Dwight G. Duncan | 28 February 2013 |

tags: law, obituaries, political correctness

Legal scholar Ronald Dworkin, the grand old man of political correctness, died earlier this month.

“I am very happy now”

Francis Phillips | 09 November 2012 |

tags: death with dignity, Liverpool Care Pathway, obituaries

MercatorNet's book reviewer describes the good death of a dear brother.

Requiem for a truth-teller

Robert P. George | 19 October 2012 |

tags: Communism, obituaries, truth

Historian Eugene Genovese was a teller of truth, even when the truth to be told was ugly, embarrassing, humiliating.

Vale, Ray Bradbury

Walter Pless | 08 June 2012 |

tags: obituaries, science fiction

Novelist. Poet. Visionary. America's best-loved science fiction writer was also a kindly mentor.

Just one hitch with all those eulogies

Michael Cook | 19 December 2011 |

tags: human dignity, obituaries

Who was the greater public intellectual, Christopher Hitchens or Vaclav Havel?

Two women of character

Carolyn Moynihan | 09 August 2011 |

tags: Bernadine P. Healy, Nancy Wake, obituaries

War heroines and committed professionals are both necessary to civilisation.

A perfect gentleman

Joanna Bogle | 12 July 2011 |

tags: European identity, obituaries, Otto von Habsburg

Otto von Habsburg, son of Austria’s last emperor and champion of European unity, has died.

A victory for truth: the life of Bernard Nathanson

Carolyn Moynihan | 25 February 2011 |

tags: abortion, Bernard Nathanson, obituaries, Roe v. Wade

An unlikely hero of human dignity died this week, a doctor who once performed thousands of abortions.

J D Salinger’s American Dream

Barbara Kay | 02 February 2010 |

tags: books, J D Salinger, obituaries

A quest for authenticity that turned prolonged immaturity into an ideal.

Mary Daly, feminist orphan

Carolyn Moynihan | 13 January 2010 |

tags: feminism, Mary Daly, obituaries, religion

One of the most radical foes of patriarchy has died, apparently still estranged from God the Father.