Father Love Is a Hard Love
by Francis X. MaierThe role of the father is to give; and through that giving to overcome, little by little, the selfishness and ingratitude that come so easily to every child. Continue Reading »
Authoritative Homes
by Charles L. GlennParental authority has been an issue of lively and often bitter public debate over the past two centuries, and it seems likely to play a significant role in the 2022 elections and beyond. As I write, a lead story in the Washington Post features a new nationwide organization called “Moms . . . . Continue Reading »
The Art of St. Joseph
by Mark BauerleinElizabeth Lev joins the podcast to discuss her recent book, The Silent Knight: A History of St. Joseph as Depicted in Art. Continue Reading »
Past, Present, Peace
by Mark BauerleinWilliam Damon joins the podcast to discuss his book, A Round of Golf with My Father: The New Psychology of Exploring Your Past to Make Peace with Your Present. Continue Reading »
The Grandfather’s Vocation
by Peter J. LeithartBy leaving an imprint on our grandkids, we throw a line to generations we’ll never live to see. To be a grandparent is to build a bridge of hope from the past into the future. Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousOne of the most fascinating details of Mary Eberstadt’s “The Fury of the Fatherless” (December) is the observation that the BLM movement has a Marxist vision of the family: “We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families . . . . Continue Reading »
From Boys to Men
by Tzvi SinenskyRabbi Lamm urges us to invite our young men to join the community of adults by engaging them in conversations centering on matters of substance, through which we can initiate them into the community of the faithful. Continue Reading »
The Fury of the Fatherless
by Mary EberstadtThe 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 3. But the fact that it was thinkable in the first place points to a truth beyond electoral . . . . Continue Reading »
Reading the Signs
by Midge GoldbergSo-and-so slept here, a date, a listof battles fought—whatever they’re about,he reads them all, not just to get the gistbut top to bottom, loudly, calling outexcitedly, listen to this, you guys,to share with them this knowledge on display,this one cool fact. The kids all roll their . . . . Continue Reading »
Broken Family, Broken Country
by John WatersMy Father Left Me Ireland: An American Son’s Search For Home by michael brendan dougherty sentinel, 223 pages, $24 Irish artists face a problem unknown to artists in, let us say, uninterrupted nations. It is possible for things, places, people to be “too Irish”—the gist of a note I . . . . Continue Reading »
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