Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Suicide Pods and the Trivialization of Death
UnHerd reported this week on a voluntary suicide using a Sarco pod, a 3D-printed personal gas chamber…
The Mirror Images of Birth and Death
Most people don’t talk or think about death. I only realized this close to adulthood, having grown…
Respect and Hierarchy in Higher Education
Hope springs eternal for university administrators. After declining to punish student protestors who flagrantly flouted institutional rules…
Pro-Natalism Is Not Enough
My husband and I have one little girl and we are expecting our second child at the…
Reality Is Strange
How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Elseby jeffrey j. kripalchicago, 312 pages,…
What Protestants Can Learn From Catholics
Two weeks ago I was at a conference in California where I had the joy of sitting…
What JD Vance Gets Right About “Childless Cat Ladies”
Three years ago, as a Senate candidate, JD Vance took aim at what he dubbed “the childless…
Prayer in a Time of War
I do not understand war. Even in the present time, for all my deeply felt moral and religious…
Charity, Good Manners, and Driving the Interstates
The Catechism of the Catholic Church says some interesting things about charity, the supreme theological virtue that,…
Why Millennials Aren’t Having Children
What Are Children For?:On Ambivalence and Choiceby anastasia berg and rachel wisemanrnst. martin’s press, 336 pages, $27…
PaPa Pete’s Patriarchy
The following essay is excerpted from the forthcoming book Dawn’s Early Light: Burning Down Washington to Save…
Raw Deal
Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America’s Working Men and Women by batya ungar-sargon encounter, 264 pages,…
Today the Weather
Today the weather brings to mind the nature of the curved line, the many ways we measure…
Children’s Books for Adults
Early this month, I had a doctor’s appointment in Glen Ellyn, the suburb just to the east…
Men Should Be Homemakers, Too
The Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker has been subject to a chorus of condemnation after his…
