Matthew Schmitz

President Obama hit Romney hard on the issue of contraception in Tuesday’s debate, and we saw Romney do what he’s done in every political environment: docilely accept the terms offered by his opponent (whether that’s Massachusetts liberalism or talk-radio conservatism). . . . . Continue Reading »

I made many of my close friends—-and learned a good deal to boot—-at the first Love and Fidelity Network conferences, and so I’m happy to commend this year’s upcoming conference taking place on the Princeton University campus on November 2nd and 3rd. The conference begins . . . . Continue Reading »

Rapper 50 Cent recently took to Twitter to outline a four-step plan for sexual purity. We hear enough, mostly true, about the crassness of today’s pop-music that it’s worth highlighting when one of its stars speaks out for virtue (whatever else he has said against it elsewhere): [ <a . . . . Continue Reading »

The great evangelist—-who became famous for stadium-filling crusades and became a close friend and adviser to multiple presidents—-issued the following statement: “It was an honor to meet and host Governor Romney in my home today, especially since I knew his late father former . . . . Continue Reading »

Lou Markos of Houston Baptist University is going through the works of C.S. Lewis using a nice A-Z conceit. Check it out on his website . . . . . Continue Reading »

From the  Columbus Dispatch : For all 18 years of her life, Megan Ryan has given to others. Last night, her peers at Bishop Hartley High School returned some of the love. Ryan, who has Down syndrome, was crowned the 2012 homecoming queen during a ceremony at the Roman Catholic school on the . . . . Continue Reading »

Ryan T. Anderson is back in the saddle, once again writing on his old beat, the stem cell wars: On March 9, 2009, President Obama signed an executive order spending federal dollars—for the first time ever—on embryo-destructive stem-cell research. Yesterday, Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, the . . . . Continue Reading »

A rambling article begins with the question, “What’s the best place for young men’s health care?” The author—-despite the seeming fact that he’s never visited one of their clinics, and without any reference to the health and life of the very youngest of men and . . . . Continue Reading »

Michael New sent me a helpful note about the latest, much-discussed study on free contraception: Last week a study which appeared in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology had the mainstream media swooning. It purportedly found that providing no-cost contraception to women resulted in a . . . . Continue Reading »

Randy Boyagoda, a frequent contributor to these pages and the author of a forthcoming biography of Richard John Neuhuas, discusses his novel ” Beggar’s Feast ” with John Miller: . . . . Continue Reading »