Catherine Glenn Foster, President & CEO of Americans United for Life, wrote yesterday on the need for a more proactive White House pandemic response: America has the best health-care system in the world, but as we brace for COVID-19’s ongoing effects, we’re faced with the stark reality that we almost certainly will need even more…
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Fierce resistance to that which defiles
R.R. Reno writes on fascism and anti-fascism in light of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s public threats against members of the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week, wherein Sen. Schumer told two U.S. Supreme Court justice that—if they didn’t vote to strike down a Louisiana law mandating hospital safety standards for abortion clinics—those Supreme Court…
Beauty, not simply function, in architecture
Carroll William Westfall, Columbia University professor of architecture, writes why classical architecture is better than modernist architecture: The defenders of modernist architecture lost no time in assaulting the recent Trump administration proposal that government buildings be classical. Architecture critics and the heads of architecture schools are among those who seek to preserve the putative right…
Kobe Bryant, RIP
Tom Hoffarth and Steve Lowery on the late Kobe Bryant’s faith: In the immediate aftermath of Bryant’s sudden death along with eight other people, including his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, in a helicopter crash Jan. 26, it soon became known that Bryant stopped by Queen of Angels, located a couple miles from his Newport Coast home,…
‘A national appeal to build a culture of life’
President Trump delivers the State of the Union address tonight: Ahead of President Donald Trump’s annual State of the Union address on Tuesday, Feb. 4, pro-life activists and Christian leaders say they hope the president will use his address to advocate for the right to life and to protect religious minorities. “I hope President Trump…
One who breaks an unjust law
In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, here’s MLK on the difference between just law and unjust law: One may well ask: “How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?” The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to…
The political task of Christians
What if we woke up one day only to realize that what we thought we knew of the world was wrong? Fr. Stephen Freeman writes that our knowledge of the world, and the way we think, is flawed in a very particular way: No one has written more insightfully nor critically about secularism than the…
A snapshot of the health of American families
Lyman Stone breaks down some of the latest data on American families: Nearly 4 in 10 children in America are not residing with their own two, married parents (biological or adoptive). This is according to the recently released 2018 American Community Survey, the largest annual social survey carried out in America. As recently as 1960,…
Forgetting what work is for
Pew: “The share of adults who have lived with a romantic partner is now higher than the share who have ever been married; married adults are more satisfied with their relationships, more trusting of their partners.” Fascinating that we have troubling recognizing this: “being in a committed relationship” and “having a job or career you…
Alienated America
I listened to Tim Carney’s appearance with Kathryn Jean Lopez recently, where he speaks at New York’s Sheen Center for Thought & Culture on his latest book, “Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse:” He references Chris Arnade’s work over the past few years in chronicling the parts of America that those of…