Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
Making Men in the Blue Ridge Mountains
The gravel road wound through a valley, surrounded on all sides by mountain ridges covered in verdant…
A Mother’s Prayer
My wife is my godmother. On the day of my baptism, my wife stood by me as…
Playing the Venereal Game
A book subtitled The Venereal Game is not normally one to be recommended in a family magazine.…
No Living with the Killing
Midway through the brutal Western film The Proposition (2005), there is a crucial moment when the outlaw…
Following the Jewish Jesus
Twenty-four years ago this week, I was in Jerusalem to cover Pope John Paul II’s epic pilgrimage…
Two Who Didn’t Run
His neighbors in 1940s Oklahoma would have found it hard to imagine the boy they knew as…
