Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Ungentle Parenting
What are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choiceby anastasia berg and rachel wisemanst martin’s, 336 pages, $27…
The Enduring Essence of the Mets
I grew up in working-class New York City in the 1980s, which means I grew up with…
The Humanity of Hospitality
Princeton professor Robert P. George recently drew my attention to a trivial but emblematic incident in which a flight…
The Right Must Ease the Burden on Working Moms
One of the biggest complaints I hear from young families,” JD Vance said on the vice-presidential debate…
Suicide Pods and the Trivialization of Death
UnHerd reported this week on a voluntary suicide using a Sarco pod, a 3D-printed personal gas chamber…
The Mirror Images of Birth and Death
Most people don’t talk or think about death. I only realized this close to adulthood, having grown…
Respect and Hierarchy in Higher Education
Hope springs eternal for university administrators. After declining to punish student protestors who flagrantly flouted institutional rules…
Pro-Natalism Is Not Enough
My husband and I have one little girl and we are expecting our second child at the…
Reality Is Strange
How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Elseby jeffrey j. kripalchicago, 312 pages,…
What Protestants Can Learn From Catholics
Two weeks ago I was at a conference in California where I had the joy of sitting…
What JD Vance Gets Right About “Childless Cat Ladies”
Three years ago, as a Senate candidate, JD Vance took aim at what he dubbed “the childless…
Prayer in a Time of War
I do not understand war. Even in the present time, for all my deeply felt moral and religious…
Charity, Good Manners, and Driving the Interstates
The Catechism of the Catholic Church says some interesting things about charity, the supreme theological virtue that,…
Why Millennials Aren’t Having Children
What Are Children For?:On Ambivalence and Choiceby anastasia berg and rachel wisemanrnst. martin’s press, 336 pages, $27…
PaPa Pete’s Patriarchy
The following essay is excerpted from the forthcoming book Dawn’s Early Light: Burning Down Washington to Save…
