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Matthew LoftusFamilyEducation
There are two primary problems with "failing schools" and American children. Don't confuse them.
Grace HumblesFamilyFeatured
Every day, 385,000 newborn babies enter the world. A fledgling group of theorists and writers is interested in reimagining how we think about these births and the children they produce. Using the provocative tagline “Abolish the Family,” this group of […]
Bill MeloneFamilyFeatured
After years of secondary infertility, my wife and I discovered she was pregnant on Father’s Day of 2016. It was a stunning moment for us, a seemingly miraculous answer to prayers that we had mostly given up on. But three […]
Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureHistoryEthicsEconomicsEducation
What we mean when we talk about "the liberal order" or "liberalism" and why it's destroying us.
Jake MeadorFamilyEconomics
Matt Yglesias has an astute piece noting some reasons for concern amongst progressives re: the long string of success their movement has enjoyed with regards to LGBT+ issues: We had a roughly 10-year period of political routs (starting with the […]
Rachel Roth AldhizerFamilyFeaturedembodiment
When I was pregnant with my son David Samuel, born in the heat of last July, I wondered if I could make a sort of bargain with God. I knew David would be disabled, and I prayed either that God […]
Rory GrovesFamilyFeaturedEconomics and Business
An epochal shift is underway; one that social scientists will dissect for decades. And it doesn’t bode well for corporate America. In what economists are calling ‘The Great Resignation’, one-third of the employed workforce—over 47 million laborers—quit their jobs in […]
Joshua HeavinFamilyFeaturedCurrent Politics
Christians and even some non-Christian philosophers regularly strive to ‘remember death,’ but few of us seem willing to remember our birth. Only a few paragraphs into Augustine’s Confessions, he recalls the grace of God given to him by his own […]
Brandon McGinleyFamilyFeaturedJournalJournal 1
Paula S. Fass. The End of American Childhood: A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. $19.95, 352 pp. Perhaps more than anything else, Paula S. Fass’s learned and engaging […]
Onsi A. KamelFamilyFeatured
It is a hard thing not to love one’s children. It is not hard to resent them, to see them as miscreants or burdens, to think them selfish and base, to find their concupiscence by turns infuriating and repugnant. Neither […]
Bella GamboaFamilyFeaturedhealth
A tiny Bella, wearing a striped sweater and a mostly toothless grin. My parents, glowingly happy with their new baby. My three great-grandparents, seemingly ageless.
Jake MeadorFamilyChurch
I don’t know a way to start this without some level of personal detail, but I’ll try to be brief: I grew up in a church somewhere right of John MacArthur which, these days, things MacArthur is a progressive. If you […]