Family

A selection of recent articles on this topic

The Parent Trap Times Three

Dana Mack

When my daughter was seven, her Austrian grandmother sent her three Erich Kaestner novels for Christmas. Her…

A Third Way?

Irving Louis Horowitz

Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by edward…

Liberating Academic Freedom

George M. Marsden

It is often said that every book is autobiographical. That certainly is true of mine. About a…

The New Populism

Dean C. Curry

The Great Betrayal by patrick j. buchanan little, brown. 384 pp. $22.95 Readers of a certain age…

Infanticide for Beginners

James Nuechterlein

It was the issue of abortion that taught me to be suspicious of the word “reform.” It…

Memoirs of a Catholic Boyhood

Andrew J. Bacevich

The muddy Illinois River ranks among the least distinguished of the Mississippi’s tributaries, a brown expanse of…

Democracy’s Private Places

Philip Bess

For centuries the public square and the street have been the spatial media of public culture. But…

End No-Fault Divorce?

Maggie Gallagher / Barbara Dafoe Whitehead

YES: Maggie Gallagher Recently I proposed that states require a five-year waiting period for a contested no-fault…

Unbelievable

George Weigel

Hymns of Prudentius: The Cathemerinon; Or, The Daily Round Translated by David R. Slavitt. Johns Hopkins University…

I Am No Lazy Lover

Richard Novak, C.S.C.

I am no lazy lover with sweeping grandeurs of small talk. Words, you discover are passing; love…

Who Are You?

Andrew J. Bacevich

The Clash of Civilization and the Remaking of World Order by samuel p. huntington simon & schuster,…

Mere Joy

Molly Finn

Life as We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child by michael bérubé pantheon,…

A Bible Fit for Children

Alan Jacobs

In a famous passage from Science and the Modern World, Alfred North Whitehead gives this counsel to…

Creatures of Place and Time: Reflections on Moving

Gilbert Meilaender

My family and I moved last summer, moving to Valparaiso, Indiana from Oberlin, Ohio, where we had…

The Achievement of Alasdair MacIntyre

Edward T. Oakes

Moral philosophers are caught in a peculiar paradox these days. On the one hand, their field is…