An old slogan has made a comeback. While speaking about the newly-released Planned Parenthood videos, a presidential candidate has walked back from a recent defense of their practices to say something you don’t hear much anymore from the pro-choice crowd: “I have said for more than 22 years that . . . . Continue Reading »
A Letter to My African-American Daughter, and a Response to Ta-Nehisi Coates
David French, National Review
Why Read Christopher Lasch?
Matthew Harwood, The American Conservative
Underworld: How the Sinaloa Drug Cartel Digs Its Tunnels
Monte Reel, The New Yorke
Fetal Heartbeat and the Judicial Imagination
Hadley Arkes, The Catholic Thing
How America's Original Sin Still Haunts Us in the Fourteenth Amendment
Does the Church actually need a new (or new old) option? Continue Reading »
Looking Away From Abortion
Ross Douthat, New York Times
Richard Nixon's Culture War
Mark Judge, Real Clear Religion
Antiracism, Our Flawed New Religion
John McWhorter, Daily Beast
Cecile Richards is Right
Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review
Dryads and Hamadryads
Matthew Walther, Washington Free Beacon
Roberto Bolaño neatly captures the spirit of The Savage Detectives in an establishing scene early in the book. Seventeen-year-old Juan García Madero is the beneficiary of an unexpected sexual favor in the back room of a restaurant. When he is close to experiencing la petite mort, a waitress pokes . . . . Continue Reading »
Let us be on guard against colonization by new ideologies. There are forms of ideological colonization which are out to destroy the family. They are not born of dreams, of prayers, of closeness to God or the mission which God gave us; they come from without, and for that reason I am saying that they . . . . Continue Reading »
As a conservative Christian at a small liberal arts school, I’m a part of a small minority group in an emphatically liberal student body. Thanks to my views—as well as my willingness to share my opinion—I have had the dubious privilege of becoming, for many, the representative figure of conservative Christianity on my campus. Continue Reading »
The Dominican Option and the Common Good
C. C. Pecknold, Ethika Politika
The Flesh Made Word: Tattoos, Transgression, and the Modified Body
Christine Rosen, Hedgehog Review
What is the Role of Leo Strauss in Conservative Thought?
Peter Lawler, The Imaginative Conservative
Why do Westerners Join ISIS?
Simon Cottee, The Atlantic
Mideast Christians have the misfortune to be too foreign for the Right and too Christian for the Left. Continue Reading »
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