Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Liberating Academic Freedom
It is often said that every book is autobiographical. That certainly is true of mine. About a…
The New Populism
The Great Betrayal by patrick j. buchanan little, brown. 384 pp. $22.95 Readers of a certain age…
Infanticide for Beginners
It was the issue of abortion that taught me to be suspicious of the word “reform.” It…
Memoirs of a Catholic Boyhood
The muddy Illinois River ranks among the least distinguished of the Mississippi’s tributaries, a brown expanse of…
Democracy’s Private Places
For centuries the public square and the street have been the spatial media of public culture. But…
End No-Fault Divorce?
YES: Maggie Gallagher Recently I proposed that states require a five-year waiting period for a contested no-fault…
Unbelievable
Hymns of Prudentius: The Cathemerinon; Or, The Daily Round Translated by David R. Slavitt. Johns Hopkins University…
I Am No Lazy Lover
I am no lazy lover with sweeping grandeurs of small talk. Words, you discover are passing; love…
Who Are You?
The Clash of Civilization and the Remaking of World Order By Samuel P. Huntington. Simon &Schuster, 367…
Mere Joy
Life as We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child By Michael Bérubé. Pantheon,…
A Bible Fit for Children
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
My family and I moved last summer, moving to Valparaiso, Indiana from Oberlin, Ohio, where we had…
The Achievement of Alasdair MacIntyre
Moral philosophers are caught in a peculiar paradox these days. On the one hand, their field is…
The Children’s Hour
My April calendar reminds me that my oldest child celebrates her birthday this month. Which in turn…
Lost in the Movies
Last year I saw two truly vile movies, Pulp Fiction and Kids. The first turned my stomach.…
