William Murchison

  Ah gits weary An’ sick of tryin’; Ah’m tired of livin’ An skeered of dyin’, —“Ol’ Man River,” from Show Boat, 1927 And aren’t we all, some days, just like Joe and his dockside gang, in that wondrous classic bequeathed us by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II: worn out,... Read More →

They got me, they got me—and dead to rights, I must acknowledge. I am identified by the management as a Human Life Review friend and contributor of goodness-knows-how-many-years’ standing: grateful to be standing anywhere at this stage of life, in which the competence of people... Read More →

    Who, me? A fresh-faced symbol of youthful aspiration? So much time have I spent shuffling off this mortal coil that Joe Biden and I could have double-dated at the root beer stand—had that eccentric notion seized either of us. That is how I’ve come to see a lot.... Read More →

  For her abortion at 20 weeks—five weeks longer than allowed under Texas law—Kate Cox left the state. Where she went I don’t know, nor have I really attempted to find out. Quite likely New Mexico, whose hospitals teem, as I have read, with Texas women desiring to refute the... Read More →

  Ah! We’re having it, we’re having it at last—the jabbing, jouncing jugularity of a good old (maybe not actually good, but you have to start somewhere) national scrum over what it means to destroy life in the womb. If it means anything at all. To various participants in the... Read More →

  Mmmmhhfff, yuck—that decidedly past-prime odor enveloping life in hyper-woke, hyper-amped 21st-century America! What in the world could it be? What in the world could it not be, I meekly inquire about the cow pasture we have come, curiously, to call our culture: a name... Read More →

  Just when we thought the federal judiciary had given over its avocation of sorting through the moral questions that surround the issue of abortion, lo, the federal judiciary resumed its avocation of sorting through the moral questions that surround the issue of abortion.... Read More →

    This October we will hold our 20th Great Defender of Life dinner, and soon after commence celebrating our 50th anniversary year. We are grateful to have outlived Roe, but the question today is: Where does the pro-life movement go from here? While saving unborn... Read More →

  Just when we thought the federal judiciary had given over its avocation of sorting through the moral questions that surround the issue of abortion, lo, the federal judiciary resumed its avocation of sorting through the moral questions that surround the issue of abortion.... Read More →

       Bullies have a right to protest, but that right doesn’t extend to dragooning others into untruths—including the untruth that people who join a hateful mob have any intention of listening to a speaker in the first place. They don’t . . . —Mary Eberstadt, The Wall Street... Read More →