Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Seinfeld’s Comedy of Custom
A frenzied George, who has promised to pick up Jerry from the airport, is anxiously checking the…
The Bizarre War on Christmas Debate
This year’s renewal of the usually pedantic “Keep Christ in Christmas” discourse had a few interesting twists.…
Cultural Anorexia: Doubting the Decline of Faith in Fiction
When Dana Gioia’s essay “Can Poetry Matter?” appeared in The Atlantic in 1991, it galvanized a national…
How to Read a Book: Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch
Here’s a conversation that you will have if you, at any point in your life, read a…
Preparing for His Coming
Advent looks back to celebrate the coming of the Son of God in human flesh. As Advent…
Discrimination Against Christians?
Christians are facing more and more difficulties in Western society. Every day, especially in Europe, churches and…
What’s Wrong with “Family Values”
In a recent talk at the Wheaton Theology Conference, the Kenyan Anglican Archbishop David Gitari told of…
New York Kippah Count
Jews have been counting themselves since the time of Moses. The Bible provided an exact figure of…
Fatherhood After Christmas
My friend’s six-year-old son wanted to be God the Father in the Christmas pageant. He reasoned that…
Careless Consumerism
When the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, relieved supporters happily looked forward to implementing the…
The Sad Secular Monks
In the Atlantic, Hanna Rosin recently defended the hookup culture as essential to female success and equality. Given…
Reviving Sacred Sculpture
The statue of a slender young John the Baptist, seated on a rock with a lamb at…
Life on the Divide
On a typical afternoon, I drop off my eight-year-old daughter and her best friend at ballet lessons…
Did the Highbrows Kill Culture?
Fred Siegel has a piece in the latest issue of Commentary in which he argues that “highbrows”…
Against Erotic Entitlements
There is a general form of reasoning to which I shall give the name argumentum ad consummationem,…
