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Since the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade in 1973, more than 60 million Americans have been killed. Their blood cries out from the ground for justice. Ours is a [...]

The Trump administration's recent designation of several American cities as 'anarchic jurisdictions' may turn out to have been nothing more than a quixotic gambit in the supercharged run-up to November [...]

SOLZHENITSYN FAMOUSLY defined the principal trait of the twentieth century in four words: 'Men have forgotten God.' So far, the twenty-first century might be summarized in six: Men are at [...]

IN 1883, SPEAKING not as a novelist but as a bystander describing a terrible scene of carnage, Leo Tolstoy observed of what he documented: 'We cannot pretend that we do [...]

One recurring theme in Pope Francis's teaching is that human realities trump scholarly abstractions: 'La realidad es superior a la idea.' His signature phrase about pastors who have the 'smell [...]

The case for American nationalism is clear. The United States is the most diverse nation on earth. If we will not have a nation and its constitution, then we will [...]

Begin with a sobering fact. During I the past ten years, some of the sharpest observers of our time have come to believe that the tectonic plates underlying Western civilization [...]

This essay has been adapted from the first annual First Things lecture in Washington, D.C., delivered by Mary Eberstadt. In November, Cardinal Walter Kasper gave a speech at the Catholic [...]

Experts believe that child obesity is a serious medical problem that affects people in all socioeconomic groups. Suggests that there is a relationship between absentee parents, particularly mothers, and obese children, focusing on working/absentee mothers, television watching habits, the prophylactic effect of breastfeeding, and poor exercise habits among children of absentee parents. (SM)

Once upon a time there was a lion ... and the lion had a voice like a lamb. The day Michael Novak died, that unbidden couplet mysteriously wrote itself into [...]

Discusses the social consequences of children left at home unsupervised by adults, particularly by their mothers. Highlights the effects on children of having employed or single mothers: lack of sufficient interaction with parents, low academic achievement, substance use, and violence. Suggests the need for a new look at the social construction of motherhood. (SM)

Discusses the demise of educational progressivism and the influence of Howard Gardner's views regarding intelligence and education of elite, private education. Highlights Gardner's new progressive educational ideology and notes the potential dark side of the revival of progressive ideas among elite schools (the more private schools abolish grades and tests, the harder it will be for disadvantaged students to enroll). (SM)

David Horowitz. A Point in Time: The Search for Redemption in this Life and the Next. REGNERY. 128 PAGES. $24.95. As many a frustrated author would agree, betting money on [...]

GEORGE WEIGEL. The End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II--The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy. DOUBLEDAY. 590 PAGES. $32.50. IF IT'S TRUE that by age 50 [...]

Cynics will say it was ever thus, and this time the cynics will be wrong. There are indeed some new things under the sun or--perhaps more accurately, given the nocturnal [...]

As the impressively depressing cover story 'America the Obese' in the May issue of The Atlantic serves to remind us all, the weight-gain epidemic in the United States and the [...]

Once in a while comes an historical event so momentous, so packed with unexpected force, that it acts like a large wave under still water, propelling us momentarily up from [...]

IN NOVEMBER 2009, one of the uglier fruits of the current practice of seeding mothers into the American military burst briefly onto the national stage. Ordered to Afghanistan from Hunter [...]

The reason that the monstrous crime of pedophilia matters is simple: In an increasingly secular age, it is one of the few taboos about which people on both sides of [...]

For a few interesting weeks this summer--catapulted by romantic melodramas with a wide cast of characters, including Republican politicians and popular reality-show parents Jon and Kate--the question of opposite-sex marriage [...]

Why aren't vegetarians and pro-lifers more closely aligned? After all, the best writing about ethical vegetarianism--the moral case for refusing meat, as opposed to the more self-interested arguments from health [...]

IMAGINE A SUBSTANCE that is relatively new in the public square, but by now so ubiquitous in your society that a great many people find its presence unremarkable. Day in [...]

OF ALL THE TRULY seismic shifts transforming daily life today--deeper than our financial fissures, wider even than our most obvious political and cultural divides--one of the most important is also [...]

Imagine for a moment that much of the world is living under a set of ideas that has manifestly awful economic, social, and moral consequences. Imagine, in fact, that one [...]

Mary Eberstadt ('The Vindication of Humanae Vitae,' August/September 2008) does an excellent job reporting the disastrous results of widespread contraception. But she doesn't answer a question that might be honestly [...]

I That Humanae Vitae and related Catholic teachings about sexual morality are laughingstocks in all the best places is not exactly news. Even in the benighted precincts of believers, where [...]

FOR WELL OVER a century now, the idea that something about modernity will ultimately cause religion to wither away has been practically axiomatic among modern, sophisticated Westerners. (1) Known in [...]

IF THERE'S ONE all-purpose concept bestriding the Zeitgeist these days, 'denial' has to be it. Conventionally defined as 'the refusal to acknowledge painful realities, thoughts, or feelings,' the term has [...]

IF THERE IS ONE SUBJECT on which the parents of America passionately agree, it is that contemporary adolescent popular music, especially the subgenres of heavy metal and hip-hop/rap, is uniquely [...]

In early March, when the latest teenage killer to make national news opened fire in a high school near San Diego with the deadliest display of such violence since the [...]

Our postmodern times, it is often observed, are rough times for orthodox belief. But religious beliefs aren't the only ones being put to the test these days. Certain established secular [...]

I almost emailed Karen today. It's just part of how we live now, that electronic tic. There was a story I wanted to tell her, a small knot of thought [...]

For many years now, and often inadvertently, secular as well as religious researchers have been amassing facts that, properly understood, bolster the case for the traditional family and against its [...]

Over the last several years, something like a national consensus has come to form around the proposition that large numbers of children - particularly young children - live in circumstances [...]

MEETING MY FUTURES By Blake Hurst Conservatives like free markets. I know I do. Mostly. But in all my time spent with Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, and Joseph Schumpeter, nobody [...]