John Grondelski

  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 →

  Forty years ago, Dr. Bernard Nathanson’s documentary film, The Silent Scream, promised/threatened to redefine the discussion of abortion. While Leenart Nilsson’s 1965 Life magazine photo essay had pulled back the uterine veil, Silent Scream, using ultrasound images,... Read More →

  Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman’s new book What Are Children For? On Ambivalence and Choice is an eye-opening study of the contemporary mindset that regards children today as at best useful goods and at worst positive bads. Published before the controversy over J.D.... Read More →

  Writing in the September 1 New York Times about the financial woes of Social Security, C. Eugene Steuerle and Glenn Kramon insist “Young Americans Can’t Keep Funding Boomers and Beyond.” The gist of their argument is that given the pay-as-you-go financing mechanism of... Read More →

    This article originally appeared in The New Oxford Review, April 11, 2024, and is reprinted with permission. __________________________________________________________________ Much wailing and gnashing of teeth followed the Arizona Supreme Court’s recent upholding... Read More →

  Click to Read: An Abortion Puzzlement by John Grondelski (reprinted with permission from the New Oxford Review) _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Read Below: NEWSworthy: YouTube Spreads Abortion Pill... Read More →

This article previously appeared in AMERICAN THINKER March 23, 2024, here (https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/03/prenatal_lives_count_at_least_sometimes.html?ref=confidentialdaily.com ) and used with permission.... Read More →

  This piece originally appeared in Catholic World Report February 24, 2024, and is reposted here with permission.   Falsehoods about the Alabama Supreme Court ruling involving in vitro fertilization (IVF) deserve refutation. We also need a close examination of the... Read More →

Stephen E. Doran (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2023, paperback, 219 pp.) Reviewed by John M. Grondelski _____________________________________________________ Writing about how people died alone during the Covid pandemic, Stephen E. Doran cites Ars Moriendi (The Art of Dying), a... Read More →

  Since Dobbs was handed down a veritable cottage industry in pro-abortion books has emerged, especially among academic presses, the intellectual gatekeepers concerning what’s considered important scholarship. I remember both Rutgers University Press and the University of... Read More →