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  OCTOBER 7, 2021 HONORING MARGARET COLIN AND MARVIN OLASKY __________________________________________________ Marvin Olasky: Thank you, David. I will treasure being called a Great Defender of Life, even though the great is an exaggeration. Back in 1990 I profiled two great... Read More →

  KILLING IN THE NAME OF HEALING: CONFRONTING MEDICAL HOLOCAUSTS PAST AND PRESENT William C. Brennan (Franciscan University Press, 2021, hardcover, 299 pages, $40) Reviewed by John M. Grondelski _______________________________________________________________________ The 75th... Read More →

  ONE BILLION AMERICANS: THE CASE FOR THINKING BIGGER Matthew Yglesias (New York, NY: Portfolio/Penguin, 2020, 288 pages, hardcover, $24) Reviewed by Jason Morgan ________________________________________________ Canadian journalist Doug Saunders’ 2017 book Maximum Canada:... Read More →

THE FAMILY ROE: AN AMERICAN STORY Joshua Prager (W.W. Norton and Company, 2021, hardcover, 655 pages, $35) Reviewed by Maria McFadden Maffucci _______________________________________________ Norma McCorvey, the “Jane Roe” of Roe v. Wade, died in 2017 at the age of 69. In 2020,... Read More →

  When Gloria Purvis was twelve, something remarkable happened to her. Praying before the Blessed Sacrament, she suddenly felt a spiritual fire move throughout her soul. It was the kind of thing one reads about in the lives of saints—except that Gloria wasn’t even a Catholic... Read More →

In an essay that appeared in this journal about a year ago titled “My Pilgrim’s Progress,” I explored how moral failure and cultural erosion have produced a nether state where the most affluent among us, the most privileged, are nevertheless a lost and unhappy lot. I also... Read More →

  The most expensive item on the shopping list, at $515, was an “intact calvarium” (a human skull) of a preborn baby, age 18 to 24 weeks. Baby livers were listed at $340 each. The seller, California-based Advanced Bioscience Resources (ABR), even had the courtesy to list... Read More →

  On a cloudy June day in Philadelphia, Dr. Leonard Hayflick leaned over the table in his research lab, wielding a pair of scalpels. His task that morning in 1962 was to process the tissue of two human lungs. After cutting the organs into small pieces, Hayflick poured them... Read More →

  What does protecting the lives of unborn children look like in the era of Covid-19? Covid-19 prevention measures have, sadly, become highly politicized. In this article I will address the risks Covid-19 poses to pregnant women and their children and discuss the available... Read More →

My sainted mother (1911-2003), a woman of old-timey Southern graces, was wont to smooth down the edges of her expostulations; e.g., “If it’s not one ‘d’ thing, it’s another!” With embedded “d” or not, I never have diverged much from that magisterial judgment on the human race’s... Read More →