Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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,…
The Cross
Probably an olive or acacia, as far as scholars can determine. Of course there are scholars who…
Why My Friends Don’t Like Homeschooling
My wife homeschools our seven-year-old daughter, so I read with sympathy David Mills’ piece in the January…
Clarifying War
Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II by michael burleigh harper, 672 pages, $29.99 World War…
Books for Christmas
If memory serves, this past year saw electronic books top printed books in the sales figures at…
Religion, Reason, and Same-Sex Marriage
In the contemporary debate on the future of marriage, there appears to be, amid many uncertainties, one…
Knowing the Beautiful
Poetry, Beauty, and Contemplation: The Complete Aesthetics of Jacques Maritain by John Trapani Catholic University of America,…
Living with Inequality
Inequality is, always and everywhere, a fact of economic life. It is also, always and everywhere, a…
Uncredentialed Wonder
He has authored over a dozen books, written a syndicated newspaper column and countless essays and articles…
Ultimate Grammar
Our is , our are , our am ”all melt away To was and were , the…
