Culture of Death

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Microplastics in Our Souls

Sean Skedzielewski

The Last Men:Liberalism and the Death of Masculinityby charles cornish-daleregnery, 288 pages, $32.99 Charles Cornish-Dale, who posts…

Surrogacy Is Already Illegal

Josh Wood

In 1984, a Virginia physician named H. Barry Jacobs announced a plan to broker human kidneys on…

The Trans War Is Not Over

Carl R. Trueman

Prior to the November 2024 election, transgender issues loomed large for many parents, who feared the erosion…

What Drag Queens and Blackface Have in Common

Carl R. Trueman

My new book, The Desecration of Man, emerged from something I had noticed while researching questions...

The Photo They Don’t Want You to See

Jonathon Van Maren

The photo is haunting: A tiny baby boy, his minute legs pulled toward his visibly ribbed chest,…

Murder in Lyon

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

Quentin Deranque was twenty-three years old and a student in mathematics at the University of Lyon, France.…

The Roots of the Trans Violence Epidemic

Will Thibeau

Jesse Van Rootselaar and Robert Dorgan, two men pretending to be women, killed ten people in separate…

Playing God, Becoming Nothing

Carl R. Trueman

This past week, I read three things that offered a glimpse of how empty the modern notion…

The Alarming Truth About the U.K.’s Abortion Numbers

Philippa Stroud

Last month, after a mysterious eighteen-month delay, the U.K. government finally published the 2023 abortion figures for…

The Reckoning of Old Age

John Wilson

Earlier this week, the editors of the Wall Street Journal highlighted “A U.S. Life Expectancy Milestone.” After…

P. D. James and Designer Parkas for Chihuahuas

George Weigel

P D. James’s detective novels, featuring Inspector Adam Dalgliesh of New Scotland Yard, are every bit as…

Frequenting the Frontlines of Life

Jacob Adams

It was a brisk early morning when I set off from the John Jay Institute last Friday…

Is Trump Playing the Long Game on Abortion?

Carmel Richardson

When news broke last week that the Trump administration had quietly restored federal Planned Parenthood funding, which…

Two Pro-Life Goals for 2026

Patrick T. Brown

The second Trump administration has been marked by wins on what we might dub “cultural” conservatism—ending DEI…

When No-Fault Divorce Turns Children into Commodities

Carl R. Trueman

I anticipate that the most controversial part of my forthcoming book, The Desecration of Man, will be…