Episodios

  • Alex Schadenberg and Roger Foley on the Cruelty of Canada’s Euthanasia Regime

    Alex Schadenberg and Roger Foley on the Cruelty of Canada’s Euthanasia Regime
    Jun 9 2025
    Euthanasia is bad medicine and even worse public policy. Once a society accepts the principle that killing is a splendid answer to suffering, the kinds and extent of suffering that come to be seen as appropriate reasons to cause death expands continually. Often, this suicide agenda — let’s call it — advances so slowly that, over time, people become acclimated Read More ›
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    1 h y 3 m
  • George Gilder on Artificial Intelligence, Economic Innovation, and the Promise of Cryptocurrency

    George Gilder on Artificial Intelligence, Economic Innovation, and the Promise of Cryptocurrency
    May 28 2025
    We live in an era of cultural whiplash. Never has the potential for technological advances been more pronounced, and at the same time, the potential for wrenching societal dislocations so threatening. What are we to make of such times as these? Should we be excited or fearful, optimistic or quaking in our boots? For answers, Wesley turned to George Gilder, Read More ›
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    1 h y 4 m
  • Andrew V. Abela on the “Super Habits” That Make for a Successful Life

    Andrew V. Abela on the “Super Habits” That Make for a Successful Life
    May 12 2025
    These days, hedonism strikes a beat in society. We have long been told that if it feels good, if it is what we want, so long as we aren’t hurting others, then, we should do it. But does that kind of self-indulgence really lead to a successful and satisfying life? Wesley’s guest on this episode of Humanize, Dr. Andrew V. Read More ›
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    1 h y 1 m
  • Marvin Olasky on the Humanity of Homeless Persons

    Marvin Olasky on the Humanity of Homeless Persons
    Apr 28 2025
    Homelessness has become a crisis in the United States. We live in the richest country in the world, and yet one can drive down main thoroughfares of our most prosperous cities and be confronted with tent encampments lining streets, squalor, open-air drug markets, and destitute people begging. The crisis is multifaceted as it is seemingly intractable. What is the role Read More ›
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    1 h y 15 m
  • Katy Faust on Putting Children First

    Katy Faust on Putting Children First
    Apr 7 2025
    Childhood in America today is often troubled. Children are experiencing mental health crises, suicidal ideation, educational underperformance, social discord, sexualization at young ages, and unprecedented social challenges. What to do? Wesley’s guest on this episode of Humanize, Katy Faust, has invested years of her life to solving the crisis of contemporary childhood. Faust believes the time has come to put Read More ›
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    1 h y 10 m
  • Bobby Schindler on the 20th Anniversary of the Death of Terri Schiavo

    Bobby Schindler on the 20th Anniversary of the Death of Terri Schiavo
    Mar 17 2025
    For those who may not remember, Terri Schiavo was a profoundly cognitively disabled woman who became the subject of a legal and cultural battle that made international headlines. The case became a bitter and protracted conflict between Michael Schiavo, Terri’s husband who wanted to pull her feeding tube, and the Schindler family that fought to save their child and sister’s Read More ›
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    1 h y 8 m
  • David V. Hicks on the Myths We Live By

    David V. Hicks on the Myths We Live By
    Mar 3 2025
    We live in an increasingly secular age in which religious believers — particularly Christians — are accused of believing in myths, meaning false stories. But are religious myths really false? Moreover, do modernists have their own myths by which they live? And why do humans create myths and what societal purposes do they serve, anyway? The classical educator and Orthodox Read More ›
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    1 h y 11 m
  • Ira Byock, M.D., on the Crisis in Hospice Care

    Ira Byock, M.D., on the Crisis in Hospice Care
    Feb 10 2025
    The creation of the modern hospice movement was a major advance in the care for people with terminal illnesses. Alas, in recent years, hospice has entered something of a crisis, with too many facilities offering inadequate care and some patients receiving short shrift of services to which they are entitled. To get to the bottom of the problem, Wesley invited Read More ›
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    56 m