Death rates among American children are on the rise. Young people are killed by homicide and car accidents, and they are killing themselves by drug overdose and suicide. Mortality rates for ages one to nineteen rose by 10.7 percent between 2019 and 2020, and went up another 8.3 percent in 2021. . . . . Continue Reading »
As biology has faded as a stable basis for definition, so a functional definition of “parent” has risen in prominence. Thus now, with psychological categories coming into play, the way is open for “parent” to be defined ideologically by the state. Continue Reading »
Old-style blasphemy involved desecrating God because it was God who was sacred. Today’s blasphemy involves suggesting that man is not all-powerful, that he cannot create himself in any way he chooses. Continue Reading »
Detransition activists make clear that there is life worth living after detransition, even though the consequences of transgender “treatments” last a lifetime. Continue Reading »
Are we experiencing the third great crisis of the Catholic Church? Continue Reading »
Powerful female activists are fighting against the transgender movement’s massive push to provide sex changes to gender-confused girls; against attacks on the natural family; and against the vile abuse and degradation of digital pornography. Continue Reading »
Kindness is a grace that acts in and on nature and is a tool for the good. I read nothing of this in the kindness literature. Continue Reading »
Last fall, when I took my daughter to her college orientation, all new students had been issued ID lanyards, to which they were invited to affix pronoun stickers. To opt out would be conspicuous—and based on my observation, no one did. A week later, I too was subjected to the same demand. . . . . Continue Reading »
While adults who regret their sex changes may themselves tend to libertarianism, their stories testify to a hidden horror: vulnerable, disturbed individuals of all ages hastily ushered into procedures that are nothing short of medical malpractice. Justice demands a reckoning in the form of penalties and strictures. Continue Reading »
Medical procedures that would have been unconscionable fifty years ago are happening all around us. The medical profession may never recover from its complicity in the mutilation of young people. Continue Reading »
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