Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Wode Within the Wood
Midsummer Night’s Dream opens with a perfect storm of threats to the primary lovers, Hermia and Lysander.…
Sarah Ruden’s Mistakes
I fumed and fumed.” That’s Sarah Ruden at National Review responding to Mark Edmundson’s essay on Walt Whitman…
Cardinal Pell, Scapegoat
Earlier today in Australia, a three-judge panel refused to overturn Cardinal George Pell’s conviction on five counts…
Toni Morrison, Novelist of Forgiveness
The list of reasons to admire novelist Toni Morrison—who died two weeks ago, at age eighty-eight—is long.…
Big Addiction
According to my iPhone, I pick up my phone 177 times each day and spend 26 hours…
The Fertility Trap
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Declineby john ibbitson and darrell brickercrown, 304 pages, $26 Malthusianism…
Why We Read Memoirs
In June, the New York Times published a list of “The Best 50 Memoirs of the Last…
The Rot in Our Ruling Class
Twenty dead in El Paso. Nine more in Ohio. Both shootings are malicious acts to be condemned.…
Taleb’s Call to Duel
Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Claire Lehmann seemed like natural allies: Both are contrarian, entrepreneurial free thinkers. But…
Calling Joe Biden to Repentance
During the most recent round of Democratic party debates, abortion was noticeably the dog that didn’t bark…
The Epistle of James in the Current Crisis
The Epistle of James strikes us as a letter of perennial wisdom. James encourages his readers to…
Singer’s Stories
For the first time in a long while, I have been rereading Isaac Bashevis Singer’s collection of…
Corporate Power and the Public Square
Silicon Valley harassment of conservatives is only the beginning of the illiberal left’s march through corporate bureaucracies.…
A World Without Mothers
Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Familyby sophie lewis verso, 224 pages, $26.95 Now that Western elites have agreed that…
Our Pledge to Readers
I am delighted to report that our readers once again surpassed our expectations. Our spring campaign brought…