Elon Musk, Progress, and Common-Sense Realism

Like theirs of old, our life is death, Our light is darkness, till we see The eternal Word made flesh and breath, The God who walked by Galilee. We have not known thee: to the skies Our monuments of folly soar, And all our self-wrought miseries Have made us trust ourselves the...
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Pepé Le Cuomo

  This is the worst time for cancel culture to set its myopic sights on Pepé Le Pew, because Andrew Cuomo is Pepé Le Pew. I believe the women’s accusations of sexual bullying are credible. I also believe that in his own mind Cuomo’s done nothing wrong: They were all “old...
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TWO BOOK REVIEWS: Help Her to Be Brave and What the Bible Says About Abortion

    HELP HER TO BE BRAVE: DISCOVER YOUR PLACE IN THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT Amy Ford (Chicago: Moody Publishers, paperback, 208 pp., 2021, $14.99. Also available as e-book; on-line publisher discounts.) & WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT ABORTION, EUTHANASIA AND END-OF-LIFE...
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BOOKNOTES: FREIHEIT!: THE WHITE ROSE GRAPHIC NOVEL

  FREIHEIT!: THE WHITE ROSE GRAPHIC NOVEL Andrea Grosso Ciponte (Plough Publishing House, 2021, 111 pages, hardcover, $24) Reviewed by Ellen Wilson Fielding In this beautifully illustrated graphic novel, Italian artist and author Andrea Grosso Ciponte conveys the courage and...
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The Story of Jane Redux

    In the 1960s, a group of radical feminists and other left-wing activists in Chicago began connecting women whom they encountered in their political work with an African American physician in Woodlawn, on the south side of the University of Chicago campus. This...
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Ignoring Surgical Abortion’s Effect on Infant Mortality in Ohio

  A popular indicator of a nation’s health is the rate of infant mortality (the death of an infant within the first year of life). Logic would seem to dictate that technologically and medically advanced countries like the United States would have low rates of infant...
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The Legal Consequences of Dobbs

  The goal the pro-life movement has worked and prayed for over the last half-century has finally been accomplished. The Supreme Court has finally overturned Roe v. Wade[1] and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.[2] Here is the money quote from the majority opinion in Dobbs v....
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What About Pro-choice?

The Roe v. Wade opinion of the 1973 Supreme Court virtually altered the Rights of Man doctrine—the universal acknowledgement that every person has the right to life, liberty, and property. The heretofore intelligibly ordained and unalienable social standards by which Americans...
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Lies That Keep Abortion Legal

Since at least 1975, American abortion advocates have claimed that reversing the 1973 Roe and Doe Supreme Court decisions would make women criminals subject to prosecution for murder and/or homicide—not only for procuring or undergoing an illegal abortion or self-aborting but...
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Big Abortion v. David Daleiden

In the middle of the day on April 5, 2016, agents from the California Department of Justice burst into the Orange County apartment of journalist David Daleiden and raided it.1 Less than one year earlier, Daleiden had released shocking footage that he filmed during an elaborate...
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