Culture of Death

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Malta’s Answer to the Abortion Lobby

Jonathon Van Maren

For almost a decade, abortion activists have had the small Mediterranean country of Malta in their crosshairs.…

Are Autonomous Weapons Consistent with Human Rights?

Charles C. Camosy

What follows is a lightly edited version of the written testimony Camosy prepared for the Tom Lantos…

How Trump Betrayed the Pro-Life Movement

Jonathon Van Maren

Several weeks after the 2016 election, Marjorie Dannenfelser received a voicemail from President-Elect Donald J. Trump. Her…

Lena Dunham Sticks the Landing

Virginia Aabram

Famesick:A Memoirby lena dunhamrandom house, 416 pages, $32 If offered the choice, how many of us would…

Sexual Ethics Is a Social Justice Issue

Stephen G. Adubato

Pope Leo XIV recently stated that “We tend to think that when the church is talking about…

An Evangelical Update to Just War Theory

Jay Thomas

The first time I heard about just war theory was in my military ethics class. As midshipmen…

How to Destroy the Black Family

Mark Bauerlein

In the ​latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Delano Squires joins…

Nigel Biggar’s Thick Red Line

John Duggan

The New Dark Age:Why Liberals Must Win the Culture Warsby nigel biggarpolity, 192 pages, $25 Professor Nigel…

When Eugenics Goes Viral

Jonathon Van Maren

On June 3, a debate about the silent genocide of unborn children with Down syndrome exploded on…

Pelvic Theology, Pelvic Justice

Carl R. Trueman

In a recent New York Times guest essay, Catholic writer David Gibson praised Pope Leo for moving…

The Throwaway Culture Advances

Ronald Hicks

Life is no less beautiful when it is accompanied by illness or weakness, hunger or poverty, physical…

How Commercial Surrogacy Targets Military Families

Will Thibeau

Military wives constitute less than 1 percent of the American population, and they make up between 15…

Same-Sex Marriage and the Degradation of European Law

​Ryszard Legutko

Until recently, Poland’s definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman seemed inviolable,…

When a Cathedral Disappears

Paul Murray

In the center of Stepanakert, the capital city Armenians call the heart of Artsakh, there once stood…

AI Is Not the Culprit

Ephraim Radner

I have a confession to make: I use AI chatbots. A lot. I ask them questions about…