Alexander Raikin

Washington, D.C., United States

Freelance Writer at Freelance

Visiting fellow in bioethics & American democracy at @EPPCdc / interested in medical ethics and bad statistics / send tips to [email protected]

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Articles

A father battles Canada’s suicide machine

1 month ago | unherd.com | Alexander Raikin

albertaAssisted dyingassisted suicideAutismCanadaDoctorseuthanasiaHealthcareMAiDMedical Assistance in DyingrestofworldSociety On 31 January, 2024, Wade was running out of time. He had tried everything to persuade his 28-year-old daughter, Marge, that she could get better. But Marge had been scheduled to die by assisted suicide at 2 p.m. the next day at the family’s home in Alberta, Canada. He was horrified. Marge was autistic, vulnerable, and had no diagnosed physical illness.
Regulating pornography

Dec 6, 2024 | eppc.org | Brad Littlejohn |Henry Olsen |Alexander Raikin |Matthew Malec

Published December 6, 2024 WORLD Opinions In the mid-1990s, while America was waking up to the intoxicating new experience of being online, lawmakers were waking up to the perils the new medium posed, especially for children.
No, there aren’t 15,000 transgender troops in the US military

Dec 5, 2024 | eppc.org | Alexander Raikin |Carl R. Trueman |Nathanael Blake |Eric Kniffin

Published December 5, 2024 Breaking Battlegrounds The telltale sign of a bad statistic is how often it is invoked. Last week, the British newspaper The Times claimed that Donald Trump is planning an executive order on his first day back in office to remove all transgender members of the US military. More precisely, all 15,000 transgender soldiers.
Three Ways Trump Can Fight Wokeness in Sports

Dec 5, 2024 | eppc.org | Jennifer S. Bryson |Henry Olsen |Brad Littlejohn |Alexander Raikin

Published December 5, 2024 Thomas D. Klingenstein A cold civil war is fought not just in the political realm but in the trenches of culture as well.
Lance Morrow, 1939-2024

Dec 2, 2024 | eppc.org | Alexander Raikin |Nathanael Blake |Henry Olsen

December 2, 2024 The scholars and staff of the Ethics and Public Policy Center mourn the passing of Lance Morrow, the Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow at EPPC since 2017. The author of nine books, he was a two-time winner of the National Magazine Award—the first for his original coverage in essay form of American cultural affairs, the second for his essay that was part of Time’s special coverage of September 11th. Three weeks ago, he received the Thomas L.
Assisted Suicide is the End of Tory Values

Nov 29, 2024 | europeanconservative.com | Alexander Raikin

Today, we will find out if there is a conservative party left in the United Kingdom. After only five hours of parliamentary debate, and without a single impact assessment, most Conservative MPs are set to vote against Labour backbencher Kim Leadbeater’s rushed assisted suicide bill. Yet an eclectic minority of Tory MPs—supported by former Prime Minister David Cameron—are set to be the deciding factor to push Leadbeater’s bill across a critical vote this week.
Big business against the natural family

Nov 19, 2024 | eppc.org | Nathanael Blake |Alexander Raikin |Francis X. Maier |George Weigel

Published November 19, 2024 The Catholic World Report Christian social thinkers have urged the development of a humane economy that provides justice for workers and support for families. Unfortunately, big businesses today appear to have little sense of how to achieve this, even when they are trying to be generous to their employees.
New Investigative Report Reveals Ambiguous Family and Abortion Policies at Fortune 100 Companies

Nov 19, 2024 | eppc.org | Alexander Raikin |Nathanael Blake |Henry Olsen |Alexandra DeSanctis

Published November 19, 2024 EPPC-How-Fortune-100-Companies-Stack-Up-on-Abortion-Travel-Parental-Leave-and-More(Washington) — A new investigative report by Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) scholars Alexandra DeSanctis and Nathanael Blake offers a detailed analysis of each Fortune 100 company’s family, parental leave, and abortion policies.
A quarter of all Ontario MAID providers may have violated the Criminal Code. Does anyone care?

Nov 18, 2024 | eppc.org | Alexander Raikin |Andrew Walker |Carrie Gress |Stephen White

Published November 18, 2024 The Hub Each Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) practitioner is meant to follow the criminal law. Yet Dirk Huyer, Ontario’s chief coroner, at first publicly, and then for years privately, warned that there is a “pattern of noncompliance” by physicians and nurses with the criminal law on MAID.
Alexander Raikin: A quarter of all Ontario MAID providers may have violated the Criminal Code. Does anyone care?

Nov 18, 2024 | thehub.ca | Alexander Raikin

Each Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) practitioner is meant to follow the criminal law. Yet Dirk Huyer, Ontario’s chief coroner, at first publicly, and then for years privately, warned that there is a “pattern of noncompliance” by physicians and nurses with the criminal law on MAID. More than 428 flagged cases later, as I wrote in a recent investigative report for The New Atlantis, no one is listening. In theory, Canada should have one of the strictest assisted dying laws in the world.