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Fr. Raymond J. de Souza writes in Canada’s National Post: Bringing soft totalitarianism into the classroom. An excerpt:Ill winds are blowing across the land when it comes to parental rights, religious liberty and education policy.Quebec’s new “ethics and religious culture” . . . . Continue Reading »
The Dutch are so proud of their culture of death euthanasia practice, and sooo sensitive about it when people from outside the country tell the truth about how it works there in real life. Witness the angry letters I have received privately and posted here when I pointed out that the . . . . Continue Reading »
Last month I wrote extensively in the Public Square about Charles Murray’s important new book, Coming Apart , an analysis of the striking gap between the top of American society (Belmont) and the bottom (Fishtown). In yesterday’s New York Times Murray answers critics who charge that he . . . . Continue Reading »
Charles Murray’s Coming Apart has reminded us yet again that fewer and fewer Americans are getting married, and that those who do marry are waiting longer than ever to approach the altar. (Though it should be pointed out that the average age of first domestic union has remained . . . . Continue Reading »
Oh good grief. The WSJ did an interview with a fiction author/veterinarian who apparently writes deeply empathetic pro animal and feminist fiction—and yet, she treats the very human exceptionalism that bonds her to animals as something to struggle against and overcome. From an . . . . Continue Reading »
In the first of two reviews of the Oscar-winning film, A Separation , Eve Tushet considers the impossibility of divorce : An older man I know once remarked that in his experience, there wasn’t much point in arguing that divorce was wrong. What he’d come to believe was . . . . Continue Reading »
The recent spate of ‘anti-Sharia’ legal proposals may have unintended consequences aside from these laws’ crass targeting of Islam. The Jewish Daily Forward reports that a bill under consideration in Florida has now also alarmed some Jewish groups, who fear the proposed . . . . Continue Reading »
In a piece of work that is generally representative of the popular voices seeking to expose the Church and others of traditional moral commitments in their supposed “partisanship, wonky indignation and misleading religious angst,” Soraya Chemaly writes “ I’m No Longer Catholic. . . . . Continue Reading »
Anthony Esolen, writing for Public Discourse, holds forth on the illegitimate claims that contraception advocates make about the “medical” or “health” reasons that favor contraceptive use, via America’s (and his) favorite pass-time: But the use of estrogen as contraception . . . . Continue Reading »
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