John Hirschauer
Associate Editor at City Journal
Associate editor @CityJournal | 22-23 Robert Novak Fellow | "This is a hard saying, who can hear it?" | Views mine, not my employer's.
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1 week ago |
city-journal.org | John Hirschauer
In the early twentieth century, New York law recognized suicide as a “grave public wrong” and declared attempted suicide a felony. Last week, the State Senate passed a bill that would effectively recognize suicide as a human right. The Medical Aid in Dying Act, which passed the State Assembly in April, would allow people diagnosed with terminal illnesses to request a prescription for lethal drugs.
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1 week ago |
city-journal.org | John Hirschauer
The Department of Justice is reportedly investigating whether Illinois “unnecessarily institutionalizes, or puts at serious risk of institutionalization, adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.” For disability-rights advocates, the inquiry offers a chance to pressure the state to close facilities they have long opposed.
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3 weeks ago |
arcmag.org | John Hirschauer
When the monks of Canterbury Cathedral prepared Thomas Becket’s body for burial in the year 1170, they discovered a hairshirt hidden under his vestments. The British faithful considered it evidence of the martyred archbishop’s piety. G.K. Chesterton considered it symbolic of the relationship between beauty and asceticism.
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1 month ago |
brownpelicanla.com | John Hirschauer
Pope Appoints Archbishop Paglia’s Right-Hand Man as President of Pontifical Academy for Life, by Edward Pentin By John Hirschauer, Assoc. Editor of City Journal, Spring 2025John Hirschauer is an associate editor of City Journal. After decades of steady decline, the share of Americans identifying as Christian has stabilized.
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1 month ago |
city-journal.org | John Hirschauer
After decades of steady decline, the share of Americans identifying as Christian has stabilized. One reason is the unexpected religiosity of Generation Z—young adults born after 2000—who are not abandoning religion at the rate their parents did. For some, faith has become a form of rebellion against a culture that rejects traditional values.
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