Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Alfie Evans and Our Moral Crossroads
Physicians have many ways of influencing medical decisions made by the parents of children in their care.…
Baseball and Synod 2018
I trust it won’t cause heartburn among the editors of Commonweal if I confess to having cheered…
A Touching and Feeling Faith
Everything Happens for a Reason:And Other Lies I’ve Lovedby kate bowlerrandom house, 208 pages, $26 If the…
Roe v. Wade Derangement Syndrome
The defense of the indefensible often leads to a kind of derangement in otherwise rational people. That…
From the Heart of a Young Father
Bishops get a lot of unsolicited mail from strangers, some of it pleasant, some of it much…
Heresy at a Jesuit College
On Easter Monday, Inside Higher Education, an online trade paper covering academia, published an article about a…
Of Books and Baseball
I’m grateful to the editors of First Things for the invitation to take up this column, which…
Notes from the Sibling Society
The “snowflakes” problem is not really a snowflakes problem: It is the result of an absence not…
A Tradition Unlike Any Other
If you tune in to CBS at 2 p.m. on the second Sunday of April, you will…
Diversity and Meritocracy, Together
Do our elite universities prize academic merit? Or are they more concerned to achieve diversity? Most of…
The Slow and Steady Shrinkage of the Humanities
Last month, I wrote in the magazine about how the humanities are shrinking at research universities through…
America’s Quiet Carnage
America is all too content with its carnage. Especially the subtler kinds. Especially the carnage inside. A…
Decline is a Choice (Partly)
Ross Douthat is right to say that the decline of the Oscars was overdetermined—but the rapidity, extent,…
Holy Madness
Surely somewhere in Emile Durkheim or Max Weber is a reflection on religiosity and March Madness. The…
Poland’s Baby Bump
In 2015, Poland’s conservative Law and Justice Party proposed a plan called “500+ Families,” which would give…
