Commentary
“Sometimes,” said the White Queen to Alice, “I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Viewpoints
Opinion
Our Obsession With Control Over Life and Death
It is absurd to pass legislation to allow one person to kill another, even with the latter’s permission.
An elderly man holds the hand of his carer in his room in Berlin on Oct. 8, 2013. Odd Andersen/AFP via Getty Images
David Daintree
Author
David Daintree is director of the Christopher Dawson Centre for Cultural Studies in Tasmania, Australia. He has a background in classics and teaches Late and Medieval Latin. Mr. Daintree was a visiting professor at the universities of Siena and Venice, and a visiting scholar at the University of Manitoba. He served as president of Campion College from 2008 to 2012. In 2017, he was made a member of the Order of Australia on the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
