Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Euthanasia for Alzheimer’s Patients?
The medically vulnerable have rarely been in greater jeopardy. Alzheimer’s disease patients are at particular risk. In…
This Sporting Life
Amid the hoo-hah surrounding the clash between Donald Trump and the NFL, perhaps the most important question…
Ban the Laptops, Yes
A study just appeared in Education Next, under the title “Should Professors Ban Laptops?” The study worked like this:…
The Lost Purpose of Learning
In the autumn of AD 386, a thirty-two-year-old academic superstar named Aurelius Augustinus made a radical move:…
What They Knew Without Seeing
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? Or, to put it more contemporarily, what has Shakespeare’s formation…
Losing my Child at Easter
The closest my husband got to giving away he was going to propose was at the Easter…
Camille Paglia’s Teaching
Camille Paglia is an idiosyncratic mix of liberal and conservative convictions—or perhaps we should say that she,…
To My Daughter, Turning Ten
Beacon’s Riverfront Park looks different today, as if we’d been away for years, though it has only…
Abraham Lincoln, Matchmaker
What if Abraham Lincoln had sent a young socialite to meet an injured soldier, without telling her…
Ganging Up
As some readers of First Things may already know, Amy Wax, professor of law at the University…
Political CEOs
It was in a speech before the Society for American Newspaper Editors that President Calvin Coolidge uttered…
Fr. Manners
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. I fell asleep at your book talk . . . …
Shunning the Disabled
Last October, our family realized that we were not welcome in the French Republic. I had always…
What Should Girls Watch?
A female correspondent read my post “What Should Boys Watch?” and wondered about the other half of…
Gratitude So Burdensome?
Anthony Kronman thinks that Christianity contains the seeds of its own undoing. A “born-again pagan” and former…
