Earlier this year, I reviewed Tim Carney’s new book Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be. Carney’s thesis is that the movers and shakers of our culture […]
George Weigel’s recent essay titled “Why Just War Theory Always Matters” underscores the abiding importance of that principle. Just War Theory (JWT) is essential to Catholic (and other) public officials seeking to operate in an […]
Governor Jeff Landry’s signing of the law requiring Louisiana public school classrooms to display the text of the Ten Commandments once again brings together a volatile combination: religion and schools. It’s already generating a collective […]
As I write this review, The New York Post reports that City Schools Chancellor David Banks cashiered an elected mother on a Manhattan Community Education Council (a parents’ advisory board). She got the boot ostensibly for […]
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court was Mark Twain’s novel in which the main character found himself in a very different world: Hank Morgan was somehow carried back in time to the court of King […]
HarperCollins, in contrast to so much of the “curated” publishing industry, is promoting real discussion about real issues facing America and her long-term welfare. In February, it published Brad Wilcox’s Get Married!, a book not […]
Easter in America is fast becoming a hidden feast. I’ve already noted that, unlike Christmas, secular America manages to let Easter pass mostly unnoticed. If you limit yourself to the secular cultural milieu, you might […]
March 19th is the Solemnity of St. Joseph. People look to the saints as models of virtue, evidence of how concrete human beings have managed to live the kind of lives God wants of us. […]
The Gospel for the Third Sunday of Lent this year (unless your parish is using the “scrutiny readings”) is John’s account of Christ cleansing the Temple (Jn 2:13-25). Jesus went up to Jerusalem for the […]
The demagoguery surrounding last week’s Alabama Supreme Court ruling involving in vitro fertilization (IVF)—incendiary rhetoric being pushed by Democrats to stoke a new fear while making political hay over abortion—deserves refutation. It also deserves an […]
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