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They got me, they got me—and dead to rights, I must acknowledge. I am identified by the management as a Human Life Review friend and contributor of goodness-knows-how-many-years’ standing: grateful to be standing anywhere at this stage of life, in which the competence of people... Read More →

  “Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.” —Christina Rossetti, “Up-Hill” Since I first encountered the poem “Up-Hill” in my teens, these lines never fail to come to mind when life hits a rough patch. In the post-Dobbs, postmodernist, and increasingly... Read More →

    “Sir William.” That’s how my late husband often began memos to Bill Buckley, and scads of memos there were, after Jim McFadden’s cancer took his voice in 1996. Most though began “Dear Bill,” and dear he was to our family—godfather to one of our daughters—and to all... Read More →

    “In our nation, certainly, the rule has been that even the most unpopular court decisions are, in due course, accepted. (The great exception was Dred Scott.) The proximate reason why is, we’d say, that Americans have granted their judges moral as well as legal... Read More →

“You have raised the ethical question,” wrote William Buckley to J.P. Mc- Fadden in 1980, “whether we have sublimated privacy into the license to take life. I cannot imagine that anyone is engaged in a sustained endeavor of moral introspection more important than yours; nor... Read More →

    “The problems of our world,” says William Murchison, “have edges, angles, pull-outs, protrusions, and rusty nails sticking out everywhere.” In “IVF: The Next Battlefield,” our senior editor ponders the Alabama Supreme Court’s “out-of-nowhere” pronouncement last... Read More →

  [First reprinted in our Spring 1978 issue, Clare Boothe Luce’s “Letter to the Women’s Lobby” was an explanation as to why, after decades advocating for the Equal Rights Amendment, she was dismayed that its passage was being jeopardized by the abortion lobby. This letter... Read More →

    The gentle summer day my friend made her journey from home to hospice was marked by a little parade of loved ones. As the medics carried her to the ambulance, her sisters, husband, and daughter filed out into the sunshine behind her, and for reasons I cannot... Read More →

  The only thing I find even creepier than the women at abortion rights rallies whose faces are so distorted with rage they look like fugitives from a de Kooning painting are the ones who link arms and virtually dance the Irish jig because they’ve succeeded in enshrining... Read More →

  The 2023 cinematic production The Zone of Interest won an Academy Award last month for Best International Feature Film. This powerful movie focuses on Schutzstaffel (SS) lieutenant colonel Rudolf Höss during his time as commandant of Auschwitz, the sprawling Nazi... Read More →