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The Covid pandemic has been a test of what we value most. First and foremost, it has asked whether we value freedom more than safety or vice versa. Like other crises, it brought to the fore once again considerations about the common good. Prolifers have had to ask themselves... Read More →

  [John Hirschauer is assistant editor of The American Conservative, where the following article was originally published on April 13, 2022. Reprinted with permission.] __________________________________ But after a long time, Salmanasar the king being dead, when Sennacherib... Read More →

  [Seth Barron is the managing editor of The American Mind, an online publication of the Claremont Institute, and author of, most recently, The Last Days of New York. The following editorial was published on April 4, 2022 (https://americanmind.org) and is reprinted with the... Read More →

  [Richard Stith is professor emeritus of law at Valparaiso University in Indiana and a member of the board of the Consistent Life Network, on whose website (https://consistent-life.org) the following article appeared on April 4, 2020. Adapted from an article first published... Read More →

[The following is the complete text of an editorial first published in California Medicine, the official journal of the California Medical Association (Sept., 1970; Vol. 113, No. 3). It was a seminal document in the abortion/euthanasia debate, and remains as relevant today as... Read More →

  For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in... Read More →

  Abortion serves men, because it allows them sex without responsibility, and always has. “You take care of it.” A Democratic administration is intent on enshrining it. Who says they don’t open doors for us anymore? Which is why the hands-off-my-body placards at... Read More →

  “There was a funeral at school today.” I don’t suppose that’s something you often hear, but that was how my youngest son answered a recent “How was school?” query. Usually, since he’s sixteen, his response is mundane, often a little cynical. Why describe the school day... Read More →

It was an example of the kind I call “silly-clever,” borrowing the term from George Orwell. He used it in criticizing the work of the major Christian apologists of his day, including Chesterton and Lewis. (I don’t think his argument against them is very good, for what it’s... Read More →

  In Herodotus’ Histories we learn that Croesus, King of Lydia, waged war upon his neighbor Cyrus II, the great king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. At the outset, Croesus felt assured of his victory, having been told by the oracle at Delphi that he would destroy a great... Read More →