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Mary Eberstadt
Maybe, just maybe, a critical mass of American Catholics is finally taking off the “Kick Me” sign. Continue Reading »
The mystery isn’t that many of today’s young men are deserting the side that loathes them and fears them and sometimes longs to queer them. It’s that socially and economically superior players haven’t a clue anymore about what makes young men tick. Continue Reading »
“Catholic anti-Semite” isn’t just an error. It’s an oxymoron. Continue Reading »
The consequences of today’s flight from children will be profound. Continue Reading »
The Nazis “ripped the lid off Hell.” That’s what Hamas did. It ripped the lid off Hell. Continue Reading »
In 1883, speaking not as a novelist but as a bystander describing a terrible scene of carnage, Leo Tolstoy observed of what he documented: “We cannot pretend that we do not know this. We are not ostriches, and we cannot believe that if we do not look, there will not be what we do not wish to . . . . Continue Reading »
Solzhenitsyn famously defined the principal trait of the twentieth century in four words: “Men have forgotten God.” So far, the twenty-first century might be summarized in six: Men are at war with God. Awakened from agnostic slumber by new forms of temptation, chiefly the sexual revolution, . . . . Continue Reading »
Most people who believe abortion to be wrong believe it to be wrong intrinsically. By contrast, those who do not believe abortion to be wrong make a utilitarian deduction: A child at the wrong time can be a bad thing. Therefore, ending its life can be a good thing. A right to abortion, they believe, . . . . Continue Reading »
The Trump administration’s recent designation of several American cities as “anarchic jurisdictions” may turn out to have been nothing more than a quixotic gambit in the supercharged run-up to November 3. But the fact that it was thinkable in the first place points to a truth beyond electoral . . . . Continue Reading »
Rules pro-lifers should use to blaze a way forward. Continue Reading »
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