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  Last fall our longtime contributor George McKenna sent us “Getting There,” in which the seasoned political scientist, with over 20 articles in the Review’s archive, insisted pro-life politicians sharpen their messaging and deepen their commitment in response to the Supreme... Read More →

    Introduction In November 2023, our Thomas More Society—a non-profit public interest law firm based in Chicago and now blessed with lawyers at offices across the country—will mark a major milestone: 25 years of lawyering for protection of life, family, and religious... Read More →

In Part I of this two-part article we showed that the real burden on Republican campaigns was not the pro-life cause but the failure of many Republicans to authentically articulate the evils of abortion. A corollary of this conclusion is that Dobbs was far from being a “loser”... 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 →

  A recent news story got me wondering how much longer sane people will tolerate the devolution of the sexual revolution into farce. The CDC, apparently, is now using its website to instruct transgender men (women) whose breasts have been cut off on how to “chestfeed” their... Read More →

  One of the advantages of having lived through the pre-Roe days is that it gives one a sense of the history of abortion in the second half of the twentieth century—especially the dramatic change in attitudes, norms, and behaviors that preceded the momentous 1973 Supreme... Read More →

  In January 2023, an article by New York Post columnist Rikki Schlott surveyed a striking trend: a growing wave of young women opting out of hormonal birth control. The writer herself is one such malcontent. “Recently, after six years on it, I decided to stop taking the... Read More →

  by Jennifer Wright (Hachette books, New York, 2023, 334 pp.) Reviewed by Maria McFadden Maffucci ________________________________________________ Crawling through this “pop history” book on Madame Restell brought to mind “The Piranha Brothers,” a memorable skit from the... Read More →

  [John Murdock is an attorney who writes from Boise. This column, reprinted with permission, appeared on firsthings.com on April 7, 2023.] ________________________________________________________________ Jean Rohe really wants you to know that she had an abortion. In the... Read More →

  [Michael J. New is an assistant professor of practice at the Busch School of Business at the Catholic University of America and a senior associate scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute. This column was posted on April 12, 2023, at National Review Online. © 2023 by... Read More →