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  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 →

  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 →

  Just a few days into his newly minted presidency, Donald Trump, amid a flurry of executive orders, pardoned twenty-three pro-life prisoners of conscience. With a few strokes of a pen, Trump freed Bevelyn Beatty Williams, a wife and mother from Tennessee; Eva Edl, a... Read More →

  Lushi, a new startup that offers in-home or telehealth visits from fertility technicians to assist in hormone injections for women going through the egg-freezing process, is named after a breed of chicken that lays a limited number of blue eggs. Apparently, it was launched... 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 →

  Parents raise children. That isn’t news. But children, in some sense, also raise parents. Children teach adults patience, self-sacrifice, and care. Pope John Paul II taught the importance of the family in nurturing our shared humanity. Everywhere one goes in the world, one... Read More →

  The US presidential election galvanised Ireland almost as much as America. That wasn’t just because of familial ties between the countries or the fact that Ireland’s current prosperity is in no small part due to American corporate behemoths located here, but because the... Read More →

  I remember visiting my future wife in her Manhattan office back in the pre-Y2K dark ages, when style guides instructed us to capitalize the words Internet and Website. Working for a tech startup that recruited programmers for other tech startups that were busy adding two... Read More →