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  I have been reading Linda Royall’s 2023 book Sacrifice, in which the investigative journalist details Margaret Sanger’s deep and revolting entanglements with eugenics, racism, Nazi ideology, and population control. Royall also explains how Sanger biographer (and devoted... Read More →

  Babies would be recognized as full human beings worthy of protection under a pending congressional bill from Missouri Republican Eric Burlison. Rep. Burlison recently introduced the “Life at Conception Act” along with 68 cosponsors and the backing of pro-life groups. The... Read More →

  Factionalism and division, partisanship and parties. Sides. Teams. Colors. The conflict reverberating in those words harkens back, like many of the darker expressions of our humanity, to the Roman Empire—and the racetrack. Horse racing was an integral part of Roman culture... Read More →

  I am an apartment dweller in New York City. My building endured a long and strange chapter during which the landlord sent up so much heat that even with the radiator turned off tenants had to keep the windows open in a blizzard. Some of us ran air conditioners all winter.... Read More →

  Just when the nation seems to be teetering on the edge of political and cultural inanity, with one side defending what the other seeks to undo, there comes bipartisan news: Pitchers and catchers are warming up at baseball training camps in Florida and Arizona. Though it... Read More →

  I recently read Carmen Joy Imes’s Bearing God’s Name, an accessible, albeit somewhat academic meditation on the giving of the Law at Mount Sinai. This is just my sort of thing, both meditative and intellectual, biblical and gentle. During the course of the book, Imes... Read More →

  The United States rejoined the Geneva Consensus Declaration on Jan. 24. What’s that, you ask?  The declaration is a statement, originally sponsored by the United States in 2020, that was eventually endorsed by 35-plus countries. Its signatories declare that they support... Read More →

  New York Gov. Kathy Hochul last week signed into law a bill to protect abortionists. The passage of the law, which will allow physicians to remove their names from prescriptions for abortion-inducing drugs, is in response to a grand jury indictment of Dr. Margaret... Read More →

  Pro-choicers claim that “science does not know when life begins.” The conceptus, they say, is “a parasite or a tumor,” or “a potential life, part of the woman’s body.” This is not true. The term “fertilized egg” is shorthand for a single-celled human being that has a sex... Read More →

  President Donald Trump’s first term boasted so many pro-life victories that he has been called the most pro-life president in American history. Despite this, his lackluster pro-life support and promises on the 2024 campaign trail concerned many pro-life advocates.... Read More →