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  America’s twin epidemics of isolation and low birth rates intersect in the heartbreaking experience of new mothers in America. In my short time as a mom (we have two toddlers and another child on the way), I have spoken with women at libraries, pregnancy centers, churches,... Read More →

Princeton professor Robert P. George is perhaps the most prominent philosopher working in the United States today. He is also, arguably, the most accomplished conservative scholar the country has produced in his generation. The director and founder of the James Madison Program in... Read More →

  Q. Dr. Lejeune, could you please describe the process of human reproduction? A: It is a very long story, your Honor. Because life has been with us for millennia. But even if life continues from generation to generation, each of us has a very unique beginning, which is the... Read More →

The Netflix series Adolescence, which debuted earlier this year, brought greater public attention to a timely and important topic—the effect of online sexualized content on young boys and, concurrently, on young girls. The series follows the story of a 13-year-old boy named... Read More →

  . . . . Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: . . . myself it speaks and spells, Crying What I do is me: for that I came. —Gerard Manley Hopkins, “As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame” _____________________________________________________________ One... Read More →

  I should imagine that everybody here, without exception, has been to many, many such meetings; at least meetings that roughly fall under the umbrella of pro-life concern. And one of the most important things, I think, for all of us to remind ourselves of—and to be reminded... Read More →

To begin: Good for the United States Supreme Court! Very good for the United States Supreme Court! In fact, glory be, and the bar’s open, folks. I find it impossible, though you never know in our present chaotic age, to see how the court could have negated Tennessee’s right as a... Read More →

On February 18, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order looking to expand access to in vitro fertilization (IVF). In the order, the president first acknowledges the infertility crisis faced by many couples in the United States and then offers the following... Read More →

The day the U.S. Supreme Court decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Center was announced in June of 2022, I was on a 24-hour shift at my hospital in Indiana, where I work as an obstetric hospitalist, serving women who have been admitted either for labor and delivery or due... Read More →

In an address he gave in 2001 at a conference co-hosted by this journal, Fr. Richard John Neuhaus told attendees: “We are signed on for the duration and the duration is the entirety of the human drama, for the conflict between what John Paul II calls the culture of life and the... Read More →