Anna Sutherland

Remember the  the New York Times  piece about young people and social conservatism that Matthew Schmitz wrote about here yesterday ? On The Corner, Michael J. New weighs in and mentions the (seeming) paradox that young people are less supportive of abortion but more supportive of gay . . . . Continue Reading »

I suppose the Chick-Fil-A controversy has displaced sociologist Mark Regnerus’s controversial study  as the battlefront of the gay marriage wars over the last few weeks, but the Regnerus study is worth revisiting here. His study, “How different are the adult children of parents who . . . . Continue Reading »

Physics professor and frequent First Things contributor Stephen Barr discusses the implications of quantum physics at Big Questions Online: No less a figure than  Eugene Wigner , a Nobel Prize winner in physics, claimed that materialism — at least with regard to the human mind — is . . . . Continue Reading »

The State Department yesterday released its annual International Religious Freedom Report for the year 2011. From Foreign Policy’ s overview : The report highlighted the deteriorating situation in China, whose government continued to increase restrictions on religious practice for Tibetan . . . . Continue Reading »

On Crisis, Martin Folkertsma draws attention to the Obama administration’s selective enforcement of federal laws, from ignoring the the Defense of Marriage Act to declining to deport certain illegal immigrants to unilaterally  revising the 1996 welfare reform law . Even if some of those . . . . Continue Reading »

It’s always good to see the New York Times acknowledge reality: that marriage is better for parents, better for children, and better for society. In a lengthy article based in my hometown of Ann Arbor, Mich., reporter Jason DeParle profiles two mothers — one married, one not — and . . . . Continue Reading »

Writing  on his blog  earlier this month, Walter Russell Mead warns against the hubris of a secular ruling class, using as his starting point Christopher Hayes’s book  Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy . He touches on Hayes’s critiques of . . . . Continue Reading »