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Fraternity Against the Great Domestication
Sometime in 2023, a local chapter meeting of the Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR) closed amid laughter, toasts, and handshakes between future business partners. Earlier in the evening,...
Compulsory Feminism
For a long time, what Alexis de Tocqueville called the American “spirit of freedom” was balanced by settled norms that guided young men and women toward domestic life. These...
Anatomy of a Cancellation
It all began at the National Conservatism conference in Orlando on Halloween 2021. I spoke on family decline and what to do about it. For generations, conservatives have tried...
Parental Rights and Their Limits
In America, parental rights protect the right of mothers and fathers to use legitimate discretion in raising their children. The government does not allocate parental rights; it recognizes and...
Sexual Counter-Revolution
Planned Parenthood recently distributed flyers at Stewart Middle School in Tacoma, Washington. The flyers targeted eleven-year-olds, informing them that they could have sex with anyone under the age of...
Lose the Culture, Lose the Family
Many factors influence decisions to marry and have children: prevailing religious commitments, ideas of beauty and honor, vanity, hope or confidence in the future, the cost of having children,...
Lament for the Nations
Multiculturalism in Canada:Constructing a Model Multiculture with Multicultural Valuesby hugh donald forbes palgrave macmillan, 317 pages, $59.99 What is the endgame of the woke revolution? The movement is hostile...
The Virtue of Jealousy
Jealousy is often confused with envy. Envy is coveting something someone else possesses. It is one of the deadliest corrosives on the human soul, as it suggests that we...
The Next Frontier in the Sexual Revolution
What if the sexual revolution is not even half over? Sexual revolutionaries have had many victories since the 1960s, but they have not yet fulfilled their greatest ambitions. Promoting...