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[Michael 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. The following was posted January 27, 2025, on National Review Online... Read More →

[George J. Marlin is Chairman of the Board of Aid to the Church in Need USA and a member of the Human Life Foundation Board of Directors. His most recent book is Mario Cuomo: The Myth and the Man. The following article is reprinted with permission from The Catholi... Read More →

    [On June 29, 2024, the Human Life Foundation hosted a conference, “Breaking Through: The Culture of Life in Arts and Entertainment.” The full day included talks and panel discussions on film and literature, live performances of poetry, music, and drama, and... Read More →

[John Burger, who writes for the online journal Aleteia, is the author of At the Foot of the Cross: Lessons from Ukraine. The following article was published December 24, 2024 (www.aleteia.org) and is reprinted with permission.]   If it had happened today, James P. McFadden... Read More →

50TH ANNIVERSARY GALA November 13, 2024 The Union League Club, New York City At mid-day on November 13th, the day of our 50th anniversary gala, Amtrak had a complete shutdown of service between Wilmington, Delaware, and New York City. Sadly, our co-host, and Great Defender of... Read More →

Computer scientist Ray Kurzweil’s 2005 book The Singularity Is Near was a landmark in technological thought. In that book, Kurzweil summed up the progress of computer and other forms of technology in order to formulate a vision for the future of human beings in an increasingly... Read More →

  The euphoria with which pro-life citizens greeted the 2022 Dobbs decision, in which the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, has faded in the two years since then. As Monica Klem points out in a recent article on National Review’s website, although several state... Read More →

I have indeed merely assumed that abortion is morally wrong, and have gone from there. But I’ve done this intentionally: as seen above in Section 2, it is commonplace— though not universal—for authors to claim that abortion restrictions are bad for women, and in particular for... Read More →

  In May of 2024, a Pennsylvania nurse who had been charged with 22 counts of mistreatment of her patients was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Former registered nurse Heather Pressdee was sentenced after having pled guilty to three counts of... Read More →

  Ah gits weary An’ sick of tryin’; Ah’m tired of livin’ An skeered of dyin’, —“Ol’ Man River,” from Show Boat, 1927 And aren’t we all, some days, just like Joe and his dockside gang, in that wondrous classic bequeathed us by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II: worn out,... Read More →