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How Disney Killed Snow White
Disney’s live action version of Snow White, a spectacular flop at the box office, continues to get widespread criticism. Many have directed their ire at lead actress Rachel Zegler,...

The Mixed Message of Anora
Screenwriter and director Sean Baker’s Anora won four Oscars at the 2025 Academy Awards, including Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Motion Picture. Baker has been known to...

The OnlyFans Exploitation Trap
OnlyFans creators are competing to have sex with as many men as possible in the shortest amount of time. It started in October last year, when twenty-three-year-old Lily Phillips...
Recommended Summer Reading
New York isn’t quite as extreme as Paris, but the city gets noticeably emptier at the end of July and into August. It’s almost quiet and peaceful. OK, not...
Tiffany’s Supports Planned Parenthood
If there’s something we’ve learned from the fiasco last week with our leaders risking a government shutdown rather than let go of government funding for the nation’s largest abortion...
Are iPhones Acceptable in Church and Synagogue?
The existence of new religious apps for iPhone and Android, such as iMissal and the Confession app, reveal increasing numbers of people using their smart phones to assist them...
Last Night’s Play that’s Still in My Head This Morning
I had the pleasure of seeing the play Arrah-na-Pogue at New York’s Storm Theatre last night. Monica Weigel wrote a lovely review of it for us yesterday, and...
Anti-Blasphemy Laws = Anti-Religious Freedom
Some food for thought from today’s Wall Street Journal .
Stanley Rothman (1927 – 2011)
A sad goodbye to the scholar and FT writer Stanley Rothman , who died earlier this month at age 83. His name lives on through his son, David J....
One Woman’s “Bunch of Cells” Is Another Woman’s Beloved Child
In his column today , Ross Douthat captures well the paradox of how we view the fetus today in America: In every era, there’s been a tragic contrast between...
Our Babies, Ourselves
Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America by Sara Dubow Oxford, 320 pages, $29.95 n Imagine seeing a fetus in a jar. Many Americans have recently,...
NY’s Archbishop Dolan to lead USCCB
The New York Times just announced this “breaking news alert”: In an upset, New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan elected president Tuesday of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, defeating...
For the Love of Bacon
According to a recent report in the U.K., a hard-working cafe owner has been ordered to tear down an extractor fan—because the smell of her frying bacon ‘offends’ Muslims. Mrs Akciecek...
The Nobel Prize that Wasn’t
A week after the Nobel Prize went to Robert Edwards for his accomplishments in developing in vitro fertilization as a treatment for infertility”and more than thirty years after Edwards’...
The Story of Lila Rose, in Her Own Words
Fresh from our October issue and available now for free online is “Fighting For Life”—the personal story of Lila Rose, incognito investigator of Planned Parenthood. Be sure to read...