Wifejak, Icon of the Normal
by Sohrab AhmariWifejak is silly and a little annoying and painfully normal—and she’s endearing in the extreme not in spite of these qualities, but precisely because of them. Continue Reading »
Thanksgiving and American Audacity
by Bradley J. BirzerThough George Washington declared a day of thanksgiving in 1789, it did not become an annual American holiday until the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Continue Reading »
How to Fix Our Broken Dating Culture
by Leah Libresco SargeantAmerican pro-natalists need to bushwhack a better path to marriage if we want to help people have children. Continue Reading »
Roses, Chocolate, and Ambiguity
by Francis X. MaierPope Francis paid an apparently surprise visit to the home of Emma Bonino, “the Italian politician who successfully campaigned to legalise abortion in the 1970s.” Continue Reading »
Make the Conservative Party Conservative Again
by Lois McLatchie MillerKemi Badenoch, the new leader of the Conservative party, insinuated that those who believe in traditional marriage or “disapprove” of cohabitation are backward “conspiracy theorists.” Continue Reading »
Christ-Haunted Sally Rooney
by John DugganWhile her characters may no longer be the direct inheritors of the deposit of faith, they at least remain the inheritors of the questions of faith. Continue Reading »
Reclaiming Our Catholic Schools
by Thomas W. CarrollReversing cultural decline and the related loss of religious belief in the U.S. is the work of a generation. Continue Reading »
The Boys in the Bandwidth
by Mary EberstadtThe mystery isn’t that many of today’s young men are deserting the side that loathes them and fears them and sometimes longs to queer them. It’s that socially and economically superior players haven’t a clue anymore about what makes young men tick. Continue Reading »
Ungentle Parenting
by Mary HarringtonWhat are children for? For my grandmother, this would have seemed a strange question. For her, having children was not a matter of choice but simply, as she once put it to me, “what one did.” Today, though, children have become decisions we make: an opt-in variation on our default state of . . . . Continue Reading »
The Right Must Ease the Burden on Working Moms
by Rachel BovardMost families would prefer that one parent stay at home. Continue Reading »
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